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By adamg - 11/18/24 - 2:05 pm
Eagle atop Flag Rock and a dolphin swimming near it

Mary Ellen was down in Plymouth this morning and spotted an eagle eating breakfast atop Flag Rock and a dolphin swimming nearby. And then a lobster boat puttered by.

More (caveat: some blood and guts): Read more.

By adamg - 10/8/24 - 9:33 pm
American goldfinches blend in with fall colors at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted these American goldfinches in their fall finery this morning at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

By adamg - 9/29/24 - 12:18 pm
Great egret in the Charles River

Mary Ellen spotted this great egret doing a little noshing in the Charles River off Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.

By adamg - 9/6/24 - 9:50 am
Egret on the Charles River

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 - 8/27/24 - 9:43 am
Sunning, wing-spreading cormorant

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
Black-crowned night herons keep a close watch at Millennium Park

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
Yellow bird in yellow flowers

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
Glossy ibis

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
Booby and cormorant in Old Harbor

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.

By adamg - 7/13/24 - 5:33 pm
Brown booby in South Boston

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
Hawk on top of a Green Line car

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
Snake along the Neponset Riverwalk in Mattapan

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
Green heron about to land on a tree at Millennium Park

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
Turkey and a Duck Boat near Science Park

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
Turkey near an approach to the Tobin Bridge

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
Plump warbler

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
Hawk perched above Coolidge Corner

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
Blue grosbeak at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted this blue grosbeak at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.

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