Hunters looking to bag some ducks may be breaking state law by having people drive boats at the large number of ducks congregating in Boston Harbor, making them fly away in a panic - and become easier targets. Read more.
Wildlife
By adamg - 1/11/19 - 11:59 am
Brittney Moon reports that the terror tom who had been going after students, teachers and parents for two weeks at the Haley School in Roslindale has a new home this morning: the Myles Standish Forest in Plymouth. Moon says that a sergeant from state Environmental Police managed to capture the angry walking party platter for transport way down the coast, far away from American Legion Highway.
By adamg - 1/10/19 - 11:34 am
Students at the Haley School on American Legion Highway in Roslindale hesitate before they leave in the afternoon these days - because they know an angry turkey is probably waiting for them on the other side of the doors. Read more.
By adamg - 1/2/19 - 9:36 am
Patrick Maguire watched a turkey gang in action on Beacon Street this morning.
Feisty Brookline turkeys waiting for their yoga class pic.twitter.com/MFZ2ommqqg
— Patrick Maguire (@PatrickMBoston) January 2, 2019
By adamg - 12/31/18 - 10:12 am
This is an actual photo, not a Hopper painting: JP dayturkeys by Ben Walsh.
In 2018, turkeys and coyotes continued their colonization of the land formerly known as the city of Boston. But they were joined by frisky foxes, sassy seals and even a wild whale - and one lobster, liberated from a tank at a West Roxbury supermarket and returned to the sea. Here are some of the animal highlights of the year: Read more.
By adamg - 12/23/18 - 5:30 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a razorbill - a member of the auk family - at Castle Island today.
By adamg - 12/23/18 - 1:02 pm
Paul Friedmann of Roslindale found a pair of salamanders yesterday under a planter he was moving.
By adamg - 12/19/18 - 6:29 pm
Lis the roving UHub photographer spotted this seal in Fort Point Channel in front of the Children's Museum near Seaport Boulevard today. She reports she alerted the Aquarium so they could check on him or her.
By adamg - 12/16/18 - 9:52 pm
An aggrieved citizen files a 311 complaint about the skunks waddling rampant in South Boston:
Wide spread skunks. There has been widespread skunks all around the neighborhood. My neighbor was sprayed getting out of her car and now our house is overcome with the smell. Is there a way to do some neighborhood wide extermination? It is a really bad problem they're everywhere.
By adamg - 12/14/18 - 11:22 am
Medford Police report a black bear has been visiting the Lincoln Street area for at least a month, but that nobody notified authorities until 2:45 a.m. today, when a resident at 114 Lincoln Rd. called 911 to report a "medium sized bear" making quite a commotion in the area where the resident keeps trash. Read more.
By adamg - 12/14/18 - 9:22 am
Jason Bylsma spotted this coyote sauntering down Centre Street at Montclair Avenue on the West Roxbury/Roslindale line around 8:50 a.m. today.
By adamg - 12/9/18 - 2:14 pm
Roving UHub photographer Gad Liwerant stopped to watch a fox enjoy a little squirrel snack on Chestnut Hill Road in Newton, between Hammond Street and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.
By adamg - 12/9/18 - 1:31 pm
A concerned citizen expresses concern in a 311 report about the poor Ashmont turkey in Dorchester: Read more.
By adamg - 12/8/18 - 10:46 pm
Roving UHub photographer Karen Bidwell spotted this fox (not in socks) on Oakland Street near Brighton Center late this afternoon.
By adamg - 12/6/18 - 12:37 pm
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is hunting a man it says tried to ship live lizards to Trinidad and Tobago from a FedEx office in Dedham in July.
By adamg - 12/3/18 - 10:34 pm
Was walking around Jamaica Pond this afternoon, when I spotted this bird glide down to a perch on one of the trees on the Parkman Drive side.
Hawk? And should I finally figure out how to manually focus my camera lens because the auto-focus kept zeroing in on the branches in front of the bird? The answer to the latter question, of course, is: Yes.
By adamg - 12/2/18 - 5:55 pm
According to a 311 report filed around 10 a.m., there's a dead deer at the intersection of Blue Ledge Drive and Enneking Parkway in Stony Brook Reservation in West Roxbury, not far from where a deer and a car collided on Washington Street last night. In recent weeks, deer have been crossing Washington Street regularly to get between Bellevue Hill and the main part of the reservation.
By adamg - 12/1/18 - 10:30 pm
Kim Kendricken reports that around 8 p.m., she drove past an unusual scene on Washington Street inbound, just before West Roxbury Parkway: A deer lying on the ground, with two cars pulled over and some glass in the road. She said the deer did not appear mortally wounded: Read more.
By adamg - 11/29/18 - 10:11 am
David Finnerty stayed a respectful distance away this morning while taking a snapshot of the turkey that has roamed Ashmont Street and Peabody Square the past few months.
By adamg - 11/28/18 - 11:52 am
The turkeys just kept coming, and coming, and coming, on Monmouth Street in Brookline this morning:
— Patrick Maguire (@PatrickMBoston) November 28, 2018
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