Anya Levy Guyer was at Jamaica Pond this morning when workers began setting up to take down one of the pond's odder, but most beloved trees - the one that had long bent down toward the water, but which began dying late in 2022, a process that accelerated this year as the once narrow split in its trunk grew ever wider and the tree began to pitch itself ever lower into the water. Read more.
The view from the north side of Jamaica Pond to the south after the sun went down this evening.
Black void at the bottom is really a hollowed out trunk. See it larger.
The old leaning tree on the Pond Street side of Jamaica Pond didn't seem like it would make it this year - the crack in its trunk widened into a mini-cavern with enough space to support several families of squirrels and it tipped even more down toward the water, enough so that you could no longer use its outer branches to gauge just full the pond was. Read more.
A tree on the banks of Jamaica Pond, with the still green willow on the pond's one island, this afternoon.
Jamaica Plain News reports Hyde Park's Roundhead Brewing will take over the Pinebank promontory at Jamaica Pond Aug. 16-17 and Aug. 23-24 for a beer garden that will feature both beer and "farm-to-plate Caribbean American eats."
A family of ducks settled in for a snooze on the northern shore of Jamaica Pond yesterday afternoon (dad was equally asleep, a foot or two away).
This afternoon, there were at least five turtles that climbed out of the water for some sun at the traditional turtle sunning spot on the northernish side of Jamaica Pond, including these two, which got a bit more vertical than the three lazing about on a more horizontal tree branch.
Somebody left a bunch of small word rocks on top of one large rock near the Jamaica Pond boathouse.
A couple of Boston park rangers used the hitching post in front of the Jamaica Pond gazebo to get their steeds ready for some hoofing around the pond this afternoon.
The hooded mergansers are back at Jamaica Pond for their annual fall visit.
The Boston Public Health Commission has lifted its advisory against fishing - mostly ignored - boating and letting your dog splash in Jamaica Pond, because the now annual toxic algal bloom has subsided.
Spontaneous Celebrations announced today it's postponed the annual lantern festival from this weekend to next, in the hopes we won't get more rain then.
However, lantern making - indoors - is still on for this weekend at the group's offices at 45 Danforth St.
Via Jamaica Plain News.
When you think of birds at Jamaica Pond, what normally comes to mind are ducks, geese, maybe cormorants and swans. There's usually a flock of seagulls, too, it's just they rarely get near the shore - let alone come up and stand on it, like this gull did late this afternoon.
One of the signs that went up around Jamaica Pond yesterday after the Boston Public Health Commission confirmed a toxic bloom of blue-green algae that can make people sick and kill dogs.
The Boston Public Health Commission said today it's put Jamaica Pond off limits to people and pets due to what has become an annual explosion of toxic blue-green algae. Read more.
This time of year, the mallards are usually the main duck species at Jamaica Pond, but this June the wood ducks are giving them a run for their money - instead of the normal one mother wood duck and her brood, there are two, maybe three other families paddling around the pond.
The other day a turtle lazed atop the grate that covers the start of the Muddy River: The siphon pipe at the northern end of Jamaica Pond that sends water under Perkins Street to Wards Pond.
This great blue heron in Jamaica Pond was just hanging out, looking for fish to spear, when it suddenly unfurled one of its wings (and then promptly furled it again).
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