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By adamg - 3/24/24 - 8:57 pm
Wilson's snipe along the Charles River

Mary Ellen watched a pair of Wilson's snipes along some fast moving water at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today: Read more.

By adamg - 3/5/24 - 5:04 pm
Muskrat chowing down along the Charles at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen videoed a muskrat enjoying a hearty breakfast of the choicest roots at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 2/28/24 - 12:39 pm
Harrier at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted this northern harrier at Millennium Park the other day.

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 10:40 am
Donuts in the ice atop Millennium Park

On her usual walk around Millennium Park this morning, Mary Ellen couldn't help but notice the evidence that somebody had driven up onto the soccer fields at the top of the park and done some donuts:

"I don’t know how bad the field was since hopefully it was frozen," she says, then adds there was also evidence of some karmic retribution: "They did slide right into the fence."

By adamg - 1/14/24 - 1:43 pm
Long ditch floods into marshland

The Charles, the Needham Line and the Long Ditch overflowing into Cutler Park. See it larger.

Yesterday afternoon, just before the deluge that gave us That Rainbow, the Long Ditch that connects two loops of the Charles at the Dedham/Needham line (dug by the busy-beaver colonial settlers who also gave us the Mother Brook), had overflowed its banks and was flooding the nearby marshes of Cutler Park. As it was designed to do. Read more.

By adamg - 1/8/24 - 9:41 am
Golden trees at sunrise along the Charles River

Mary Ellen went for her usual sunrise walk through a snow-covered Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 12/25/23 - 11:59 am
Sun coming through the fog at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen started her Christmas with a walk through Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

By adamg - 12/9/23 - 6:33 pm
Aref and crew at Millennium Park treet

Mary Ellen reports she came across some of the folks who have been decorating a living Christmas tree at Millennium Park in West Roxbury for years: Read more.

By adamg - 11/26/23 - 5:05 pm
Bird in puddle at sunrise

Mary Ellen found the Alicia Keys of the bird world the other day: A song sparrow in a puddle as the sun came up over Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

By adamg - 10/26/23 - 9:36 am
Rainbow over Millennium Park

Mary Ellen captured a relatively rare morning rainbow, over Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

By adamg - 10/21/23 - 1:29 pm
Immature Cooper's hawk at Millennium Park

This immature Cooper's hawk at Millennium Park in West Roxbury stayed still long enough for Mary Ellen to compose a portrait shot yesterday.

She reports that, in addition to Younghawk, she also spotted a pair of bald eagles perched atop one of the communications towers along Rivermoor Street, where they get a clear view of the various twists of the Charles there - the first time she's spotted eagles there in awhile: Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/23 - 3:33 pm
Merlin at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted this merlin, a type of falcon that's bigger than a robin but smaller than a crow, perched at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.

By adamg - 10/4/23 - 8:41 pm
Mantis at Millennium

Mary Ellen got a close up of a mantis at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.

By adamg - 9/28/23 - 9:28 am
Sun rising in the morning haze

Mary Ellen watched the sun come up over the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.

By adamg - 8/30/23 - 9:29 pm
Supermoon

Mary Ellen was among the people who went over to Millennium Park in West Roxbury for a viewing of tonight's supermoon. The clouds didn't deter the moon and the mosquitoes didn't deter its watchers.

By adamg - 7/30/23 - 5:19 pm
Charles River looking downstream from the Millennium Park canoe launch

The Charles River at the Millennium Park canoe launch today looked a bit different from the view on July 29, 2022: Read more.

By adamg - 7/23/23 - 1:37 pm
Berries on the shore of the Charles River

There are plenty of big things to see on a walk on the path along the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Big trees, big sky and a wide river (now that rainfall is back to normal). But look carefully and there are all sorts of interesting little things to see as well. Read more.

By adamg - 7/17/23 - 10:35 am
Abandoned boat at Millennium Park canoe launch

This abandoned motorboat sat at the Millennium Park canoe launch yesterday, soaking up rain with no motor and stripped of all its wiring and gauges.

By adamg - 6/25/23 - 11:46 am
American bullfrog at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted an American bullfrog at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today - from the eyes up, at any rate.

By adamg - 6/24/23 - 9:46 pm
Lots of used tennis balls

Mary Ellen spotted all these used tennis balls at the canoe launch on the Charles River at Millennium Park today. A sacrifice, or an attempt to give all the dog owners who bring their pets there something to throw into the river for them to fetch?

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