wildlife

Buggy YouTube

adamg — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:04:10 -0400

Eeka reports that when she played a YouTube video with cicada sounds really loudly, a cicada outside responded.

Weaning keening gulls over Fort Point Channel

adamg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:15:53 -0400

Spatch watches, and listens in as a couple of women provide some color commentary.

Shark Week

adamg — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:14:53 -0400

Alert the tabloids: Ken Savage videos a brief encounter with a great white shark while on a fishing trip to Stellwagen Bank. He did not have to jam an oxygen tank into its gaping maw, then shoot the tank, however.

Stop calling it Wormtown

adamg — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:24:24 -0400

Meet the beetle. Source.

Beetletown might be a better name for the Commonwealth's second largest city now that voracious Asian Longhorn Beetles have been found there:

... This pest attacks a wide variety of hardwood trees, particularly maples, and is considered a serious threat to the nursery, lumber, wood products, maple syrup, and tourism industries in our state. If it became established over a large area, it could also significantly disrupt the forest ecosystem.

The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, and the City of Worcester are partnering with the U.S. Forest Service and USDA APHIS-PPQ to coordinate a management plan to eradicate this species in Massachusetts. First steps include a survey of the area to determine the extent of the infestation, and regulatory management to prevent movement of host trees and wood out of the infested area. Infested trees will need to be removed and destroyed, and susceptible host trees may need treatment to prevent further infestations. ...

Going batty

adamg — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:49:26 -0400

Brookline, Newton report lots of bats in people's belfries, attics, apartments.

Hmm, if you had to chose: Bats or killer turkeys? Or snapping turtles?

Another one of our birds is missing

adamg — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:14:18 -0400

First Reston the Rooster goes missing in Somerville, now a Cambridge seagull has flown the coop. I_am_Amy took the photo and wonders who keeps seagulls as pets.

The only thing worse than being criticized is being ignored

adamg — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:48:05 -0400

We're talking, of course, about the Southie Turkey, which, in just a couple of months, has become the local avian Britney Spears: Nobody cares anymore and, frankly, some people just wish she would go away already. Jason chronicles her sad decline; all that's left is the inevitable trip to rehab.

"Oh look, there's the Southie turkey again."

Yawn.
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Another thing you don't ever want to find in your lettuce

adamg — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:13:01 -0400

Dan Tobin was nice and didn't pour salt on the slug. Instead, he released it into the wild.

Hey! Who took his fishing pole?

adamg — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:42:26 -0400

Steve Garfield captures (digitally, of course), one of the fabled white squirrels of Jamaica Pond.

Don't let gator get your granny in Framingham

adamg — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:17:50 -0400

The MetroWest Daily News reports:

Residents are being warned not to swim in Lake Washakum today despite the hot weather because they might meet up with an alligator, police said. ...