A concerned South Boston resident decides to give 311 a shot instead of calling the Butterball hotline:
What do we do about wild turkeys in my front yard
Wildlife
By adamg - 8/19/19 - 10:37 am
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the slippery conditions on Greenwich Park in the South End: Read more.
By adamg - 8/18/19 - 11:21 am
This morning, as she often is, Mary Ellen McMahon was walking her dog Jax along Sawmill Brook, which runs along the northern edge of Millennium Park, when she spotted a cat in the marshes. A really big cat. As big as 45-lb. Jax, she reports. Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/19 - 8:00 pm
This turtle climbed up on the oversized bathtub drain at the northern end of Jamaica Pond this afternoon to get some sun, but then seemed to want to figure out if it could balance on it using just its shell.
By adamg - 8/15/19 - 7:56 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this black-crowned night heron, the great blue heron's shorter-legged cousin, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.
By adamg - 8/6/19 - 9:53 am
WCVB shows video of a whale feeding and breaching near Deer Island yesterday.
By adamg - 8/3/19 - 3:40 pm
Some ducks shared their rocky resting spot with a pair of turtles in Jamaica Pond yesterday.
By adamg - 8/1/19 - 10:54 am
Dead fish. Photo by William McAdoo.
Although some of the pogies that began showing up at the mouth of the Charles a few days ago made it out to their briny destiny in the Atlantic, others are now piling up by the locks and dam, dead. Read more.
By adamg - 7/22/19 - 7:11 pm
Over a couple of days, Mary Ellen has watched a great blue heron doing great blue herony things at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, including getting a bit of sushi for lunch.
By adamg - 7/19/19 - 11:49 am
A woman pushing two children in a stroller spotted the coyote this morning on Grayfield Avenue between Mt. Vernon and Houston streets, steered well clear and called police. Limpy has been prowling the neighborhood for months, has not seemed to bother any people, but has evaded capture and continued to limp in all that time.
By adamg - 7/19/19 - 9:52 am
Amid all the muck and decaying bikes and pilings and stuff exposed at low tide in Fort Point Channel yesterday, a great blue heron stood looking for a meal - one that wouldn't absorb too much of the oily sheen on the water - Johnmcboston observed.
By adamg - 7/18/19 - 4:14 pm
One of the geese that frequents Jamaica Pond hit the salad bar this afternoon while one of the rolling Brookline eyesores that keeps winding up at the pond just sat nearby, taking up space.
By adamg - 7/15/19 - 9:14 am
Derek Lessing watched some careful geese cross Mass Ave. at Memorial Drive in Cambridge this morning.
By adamg - 7/6/19 - 11:19 am
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen spotted this great blue heron and deer seeming to work together this morning at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 7/3/19 - 11:04 pm
The Swellesley Report reports, adds, the raccoon was a nursing mother, which means the drowning consigned some young raccoons to death as well.
By adamg - 7/2/19 - 4:03 pm
Mary Ellen the roving UHub photographer reports she stayed "a respectful distance" from this great horned owl at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
By adamg - 6/30/19 - 12:54 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this willet in the Squantum marshes in Quincy, reports it was quite the chatty bird.
By adamg - 6/29/19 - 11:11 am
Steve Bercu made sure not to get in the way of this thundering herd of geese on Memorial Drive this morning.
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