Yesterday afternoon, an egret waded along the shallows on the Cutler Park side of the Charles in Dedham for awhile, before a duck got it riled and it began flapping its wings and tried to make the duck go away and then it walked onto a sandbar in the low river before flying the final 30 feet or so to the Millennium Park side of the river in West Roxbury.
Earlier:
Egrets, she's seen a few.
Mary Ellen watched this evening's sunset over the Charles River from Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
Daniel Rothenberg spotted a subtle rainbow over the Charles River late this afternoon.
Georgy Cohen saw it, too: Read more.
Leslee spotted an unusual photo shoot in the Esplanade lagoon today; wonders what the story was.
Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
The Charles River Conservancy hopes to install a "floating wetlands" at North Point Park next spring to test whether the reintroduction of wetlands to the Charles River basin could shield enough microscopic animals to eat and so control the bacteria that now sometimes turn that stretch of river into a hazard to both man and beast. Read more.
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.
UPDATE: The fish are dying now.
Theodore Hook spotted a ton of swirling pogies at the Charlestown locks this morning.
The Charles River Watershed Association reports a bloom of blue-green algae - which is actually a type of bacteria - in the Charles River between the BU Bridge and the Museum of Science. The stuff can kill dogs and make people pretty sick.
State Police report a body was recovered from the Charles River at Magazine Beach around 7:45 a.m.
UPDATE: State Police say she was a 23-year-old Mission Hill resident.
State Police have released a photo of a tattoo they found on a woman whose body was recovered from the Charles River yesterday, in the hopes somebody might recognize it and help them identify her. Read more.
Lillie Marshall reminds us of that truism (OK, which we just made up) while looking downtown from the Cambridge side of the Charles this afternoon.
But that was nothing compared to what Cody DaSilva saw while actually out on the water in Boston Harbor: Read more.
The Boston Fire Department alerts us there will be 15 to 20 minutes of fireworks, starting at 9 p.m., on the Charles River behind the Museum of Science. Enjoy or hold your dog.
Erin Kane got an unobstructed view from the Red Line as it crossed the Longfellow Bridge this morning:
Boston on a sunny spring day is pretty great
Rick Macomber watched a new day dawning over the Charles River and the BU Bridge this morning.
Roving UHub photographer Alice Murphy was amazed to see some BU kids sailing on the Charles today.
Out on a run this morning, Jason Richardson spotted a Coast Guard helicopter flying in a training mission over the Charles by the Esplanade.
The crew also flew low and loud along Mass. Ave. in Cambridge and Central Square.
Rick Macomber reports:
The crackle of breaking ice pierces the silence as this boat slowly pushes through the frozen Charles River last night
Gary Waldeck spotted the ice that had formed overnight by the mouth of the Charles River.
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