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.
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By adamg - 8/27/24 - 9:43 am
Lilyan Hashim was walking around the Brookline Reservoir when she spotted a cormorant being all cormoranty and spreading its wings while perched on a rock yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/19/24 - 9:35 am
Mary Ellen spotted a pair of black-crowned night herons keeping an eye out for coppers, or maybe just a big fish, at Millennium Park yesterday.
By adamg - 8/16/24 - 9:54 am
Mary Ellen somehow spotted a goldfinch among the golden flowers at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
By adamg - 8/3/24 - 9:04 am
The other day, Mary Ellen spotted the glossy ibis that's been bringing all the birders down to the Millennium Park kayak launch the last week or so.
By adamg - 7/14/24 - 5:13 pm
Hugmajesty spotted our rare fly-in brown booby hanging out near Carson Beach with one of the local cormorants, in sharp contrast to yesterday's attempt by some of the meaner gulls to chase it off. Also note its feet are yellowish - you're thinking of blue-footed boobies, which are a different species altogether, one found in the eastern Pacific.
Bird watchers flock to South Boston for look at tropical sea bird rarely seen north of the Caribbean
By adamg - 7/13/24 - 5:33 pm
Mary Ellen was among the bird enthusiasts who gathered on the beach between the Curley Community Center and Carson Beach today for a chance to photograph the brown booby that decided to head north for some time in the Hub.
The booby in action - look at that neck go: Read more.
By adamg - 6/21/24 - 1:06 pm
Tim Murphy reports this hawk rode a BC trolley from the Government Center loop to at least Arlington, where he snapped these photos, today, wonders if anybody had the heart to tell the hawk that BC is probably the wrong school for it.
By adamg - 6/20/24 - 12:11 pm
GBH reports on efforts to help the peregrine chicks born atop Boston skyscrapers - like at the Christian Science Center. By the GBH reporter who has already made his name for stories like this: Craig LeMoult.
By adamg - 6/17/24 - 10:00 am
Bobby Boyd went for a walk along the Neponset River Greenway in Mattapan and Milton the other day. Among the things he saw was a snake resting in a tight space on the Milton end of the Harvest River Bridge, a goose of the non-Canada variety near that and a pair of deer on an islet in the river between Central Avenue and Capen Street. Read more.
By adamg - 6/5/24 - 10:31 pm
Mary Ellen watched a green heron coming in for a landing at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
Once down, it quickly composed itself: Read more.
By adamg - 5/11/24 - 12:39 pm
Roving UHub photographer Hope Cole spotted this turkey, no doubt hoping she can catch up with the Duck Boat at its next stop, near Science Park yesterday.
By adamg - 5/6/24 - 10:45 am
The annual Big Day Boston bird watch in Boston Proper on Saturday ended with 66 species of birds spotted from the Public Garden to Boston Harbor, including one bald eagle competing with Hitchcockian numbers of gulls to gulp down some herring.
By adamg - 5/4/24 - 10:16 pm
Mack Garvey reports Tobie the Turkey seems to have made a home along Tremont Street in Charlestown, near the Tobin Bridge. Read more.
By adamg - 4/27/24 - 10:04 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a bunch of birds at Millennium Park yesterday, including this l'il plumper, otherwise known as a palm warbler.
And there's this common grackle, looking like something you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, or, well, anywhere else: Read more.
By adamg - 4/21/24 - 10:02 pm
Michael Burstein was in Coolidge Corner today when he looked up and spotted a hawk, which, from his photo, looks to be a red-tailed hawk. Read more.
By adamg - 4/14/24 - 2:27 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this blue grosbeak at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.
By adamg - 4/13/24 - 1:06 pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint asking for help for an injured turkey on Beacon Street near Exeter in the Back Bay: Read more.
By AdamB - 4/2/24 - 12:51 pm
Big Day Boston, the friendly downtown birding competition, is returning to Copp's Hill Terrace in Boston's North End, Saturday, May 4th, 2024. Read more.
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