Mary Ellen spotted this great egret doing a little noshing in the Charles River off Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
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By adamg - 9/6/24 - 9:50 am
On a walk in Millennium Park along the Charles yesterday morning, Mary Ellen's view changed from an egret (and hidden heron) in the calm, morning mist to the frenetic bounding of a pair of young deer: Read more.
By adamg - 6/26/22 - 3:45 pm
This egret had been standing in the marsh along the Dorchester side of the Neponset River, near the bridges, when either it realized there just wasn't anything to eat there or got tired of the small black birds that kept flying right over him, so it took off and didn't stop until it got all the way to the other side of the river.
By adamg - 6/3/22 - 9:12 am
Walking along the Charles River in Millennium Park yesterday, Mary Ellen spotted both feathered and furry fauna. Read more.
By adamg - 7/20/20 - 12:31 pm
Mary Ellen continues her exploration of bird life along the Charles River and Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Yesterday, she spotted a pretzel bird, um, egret.
She also reports there's a family of peregrine falcons enjoying the towers along the road down to the canoe launch at the park: Read more.
By adamg - 7/16/20 - 9:37 am
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen was out and about along the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning, where she spotted an egret hunting for breakfast and a rower paddling through the mist: Read more.
By adamg - 7/30/18 - 12:24 pm
Eileen Murphy reports she saw three dozen egrets at low tide at Finnegan Park in Dorchester's Port Norfolk yesterday.
By adamg - 9/5/07 - 10:24 pm
OrientSee snaps a cool photo of a Great Egret flying by the Blue Line tracks in East Boston:
... These birds do sail before the breeze with the elegance of a clipper ship with all canvas aloft. To see a Great Egret in flight like this is to be humbled by our own stumble footed lack of grace.
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