Mary Ellen was down by the Charles River at Millennium Park this morning and watched a great blue heron enjoy a fresh catfish meal. It took the bird a half hour to subdue and finally consume the entire large fish, she reports. Read more.
Birds
By adamg - 6/1/21 - 7:02 pm
This heron would spend a few minutes today at one spot at Jamaica Pond (spotted here along the Perkins Street side), then flit off to another.
By adamg - 5/9/21 - 6:27 pm
Mary Ellen found herself way down upon the Swan-y River today, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 5/8/21 - 10:51 am
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint asking the city to do, well, something, about this bird, which has been hanging out in an apartment-complex gazebo off Adams Street in Dorchester Lower Mills for a couple of weeks now. The report does not specify what the bird has been doing that's worth city action, aside from the fact that it exists.
By adamg - 5/7/21 - 12:42 pm
I don't know, I love the river views, but seems kinda small.
Mary Ellen traversed the Charles this morning and spotted a couple of bald eagles in Cutler Park along the Needham/Dedham line, across from West Roxbury - possibly checking out good nesting spots.
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By adamg - 5/6/21 - 11:47 am
Mary Ellen went out for an early morning walk at Millennium Park in West Roxbury and, spotted, among other things, a young male Northern Parula getting some sustenance (she also saw both a deer and a killdeer, but the latter was, once again, not living up to its name).
By adamg - 4/29/21 - 9:11 am
Who would have thought an eagle would land right on the Esplanade? Paul Kafasis spotted the bird there this morning.
By adamg - 4/14/21 - 9:12 am
Mary Ellen watched tree swallows duke it out for a prime nesting box at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Read more.
By adamg - 4/8/21 - 6:39 pm
A seagull tried to figure out how to down half a bagel at Revere Beach this afternoon.
By adamg - 3/30/21 - 11:25 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a sparrow sitting atop one of the rustic birdhouses along the upper soccer fields at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
By adamg - 3/23/21 - 11:22 am
Forest Hills Cemetery says bird watchers flocking there to watch a pair of nesting great horned owls have gotten out of hand and is asking people to stay away from the nesting area, near the "contemporary burial area." Read more.
By adamg - 3/22/21 - 7:23 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a trio of swans seeming to have a neck contest in the mist along the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
By adamg - 3/5/21 - 11:21 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this green-winged teal on the Charles River in Watertown today, not far from where she spotted a male wood duck: Read more.
By adamg - 3/4/21 - 10:37 am
Mary Ellen reports she was standing under a tree by the Charles River in West Roxbury this morning when an eagle landed in the tree, basically right on top of her - maybe the one she saw from a bit further away yesterday.
By adamg - 3/3/21 - 2:30 pm
Mary Ellen found this stern bird along the Charles River at Cow Island Pond off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury today.
Compare to this younger eagle.
By adamg - 2/26/21 - 9:57 pm
Mark McDonald reports that an apparently lonely swan in Mill Pond - the part of the Mother Brook that River Street crosses in Hyde Park - seemed to be a bit happier today now that its partner has rejoined it after several weeks of absence.
By adamg - 2/24/21 - 7:54 pm
Mary Ellen mixed it up this morning and headed over to Cutler Park, on the other side of the Charles from Millennium Park, where she spotted this juvenile bald eagle.
By adamg - 2/17/21 - 9:24 am
Mary Ellen reports the coyotes at Millennium Park were howling this morning, as they looked for love, although one coyote at the very top of the hill might also have been looking for something to munch to start the day.
A bit further down the hill, she spotted a red-bellied woodpecker, probably too high up for any yippin' 'yote to chomp: Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/21 - 8:24 pm
Mary Ellen watched a couple of swans try to show each other who was King of Jamaica Pond today.
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