Bald eagles

Keeping an eye on the Charles

By adamg - 3/16/24 - 4:54 pm

Bald Eagle perched in a tree on the Esplanade

Out for a stroll along the Esplanade today, Fuad spotted an alert bald eagle perched on a tree near the playground near the Mass. Ave. Bridge.

Mary Ellen spotted a youngish bald eagle (you can tell because his head still isn't completely white) high up in a tree along the Cow Island Pond section of the Charles River on the West Roxbury/Dedham line today.

First portrait

By adamg - 10/21/23 - 1:29 pm

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.

Getting ready to fly off into adulthood

By adamg - 3/5/23 - 7:39 pm

Mary Ellen spotted this eagle, maybe 3 to 3 1/2 years old, across the Charles from Millennium Park today. Bald eagles go fully "bald" when they're about 4 1/2 years, assuming they don't get poisoned by rodenticide first.

Rat poison kills bald eagle found in Arlington

By adamg - 3/1/23 - 8:54 pm

The Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable reports that "MK," a bald eagle that had been nesting in a cemetery in Arlington died last night from internal hemorrhaging caused by rat poison. Read more.

The next generation of eagles arrives in West Roxbury

By adamg - 1/30/23 - 10:00 am

This morning, Mary Ellen photographed one mature bald eagle and a mottled young eagle at Millennium Park, along the Charles River in West Roxbury - and reports she saw, but didn't catch on camera, another mature eagle flying around.

Lights, camera, eagle!

By adamg - 1/6/23 - 3:17 pm

Andromeda Yelton spotted this bald eagle today, perching on a light pole at Trum Field in Somerville.

Never mind the prince and princess landing here, a bald eagle touched down near Davis Square today

By adamg - 11/30/22 - 8:48 pm

Bald eagle landing on North Cambridge roof, near Davis Square

Patrick Knight forwarded a couple of photos his neighbor, Erin H., took of the bald eagle that landed in his backyard on Woodbridge Street in North Cambridge, near Davis Square, today.

Maybe there's a reason they call a group of crows a murder

By adamg - 6/4/22 - 11:50 am

Crows attack bald eagle

A communications tower off Rivermoor Street, near Millennium Park in West Roxbury, is a popular place for birds to perch and survey the nearby Charles River. The other day, though, a pair of crows decided to try to drive off a bald eagle sitting up there. And Mary Ellen was there to watch the dive bombing.

Some ruffled feathers at Millennium Park

By adamg - 3/6/22 - 2:25 pm

Mary Ellen spotted this wind-tossed eagle at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today. She says she spotted three in total: Two adults and one young'un, still mostly brown, and carrying a stick in his or her beak down by the boat launch.

Waterfront dining in Jamaica Plain

By adamg - 1/17/22 - 10:39 am

Eagle eating a seagull on the ice at Jamaica Pllain

Mike Howlett was walking along Jamaica Pond yesterday when he spotted an eagle chowing down on a freshly caught herring gull (see it larger).

Nature's Zeitgeist also captured the brunching, reports: "The crime scene was pretty extensive with lots of white feathers scattered over a wide area on the pond ice."

A real head scratcher

By adamg - 12/18/21 - 9:49 pm

See it larger.

Mary Ellen reports this eagle, spotted at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, was using that big ol' talon for some vigorous head scratching.

Glowering in the rain

By adamg - 10/4/21 - 7:50 pm

Eagle on Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury

Mary Ellen spotted a pair of bald eagles over Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury today. This one was much larger, so was probably the female, she says.

Sam has some beak

By adamg - 8/30/21 - 8:25 am

Mary Ellen spotted this eagle at Millennium Park in West Roxbury early this morning.

Doing some home shopping in Needham and Dedham

By adamg - 5/7/21 - 12:42 pm

I don't know, I love the river views, but seems kinda small.

Mary Ellen traversed the Charles this morning and spotted a couple of bald eagles in Cutler Park along the Needham/Dedham line, across from West Roxbury - possibly checking out good nesting spots.

Bald eagle dies from eating something laced with rodenticide; first such case in Massachusetts

By adamg - 5/3/21 - 1:28 pm

The state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife reports a bald eagle collapsed and died in her nest along the Charles River in Middlesex County after eating something that had itself eaten "second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide" (link has a photo of the dead bird). Read more.

Esplanade eagle

By adamg - 4/29/21 - 9:11 am

Who would have thought an eagle would land right on the Esplanade? Paul Kafasis spotted the bird there this morning.

Earlier:
Back Bay bald eagle bops along the Charles.

OMG: When you're standing under a tree and an eagle comes in for a landing in that tree

By adamg - 3/4/21 - 10:37 am

See it larger.

Mary Ellen reports she was standing under a tree by the Charles River in West Roxbury this morning when an eagle landed in the tree, basically right on top of her - maybe the one she saw from a bit further away yesterday.

Perched

By adamg - 3/3/21 - 2:30 pm

Mary Ellen found this stern bird along the Charles River at Cow Island Pond off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury today.

Compare to this younger eagle.

They only go bald later in life

By adamg - 2/24/21 - 7:54 pm

Mary Ellen mixed it up this morning and headed over to Cutler Park, on the other side of the Charles from Millennium Park, where she spotted this juvenile bald eagle.