Not something you see every day in the heart of the North End:
I think that the duck was a mommy duck looking for Valentine’s Day treats for her little ducklings.
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By adamg - 2/14/14 - 9:16 am
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By adamg - 1/19/14 - 7:10 pm
Stevil photographed ducks in a feeding frenzy in the Public Garden yesterday.
Copyright Stevil. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 7/10/13 - 1:55 pm
A mother and two babies paddled through the harbor by Puopolo Park in the North End.
By adamg - 1/31/13 - 1:39 pm
The Revere Journal reports on what draws the hunters to Revere - and why its state rep wants to keep them out.
By adamg - 7/9/12 - 12:19 pm
Mike the Mad Biologist chronicles the adventures of the mama duck for whom park workers built special housing in the Public Garden.
By adamg - 12/7/11 - 3:16 pm
The Daily Item reports the 80-year-old duck feeder refuses to stop, no matter how large the bill, she says God is on her side.
By adamg - 11/15/11 - 6:18 pm
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today reinstated a man's conviction of cruelty to animals for squashing a mother duck leading her ducklings across a mall parking lot in Dartmouth in June, 2009.
A jury found Joshua Linares guilty, but the judge then entered a finding of not guilty, arguing that even if Linares had accelerated right into the duck, the duck had stepped under the car, that the duck was "a wild animal" and that the "defendant was under no obligation to stop, even if he knew he hit the duck."
By adamg - 6/10/10 - 11:31 am
Bob took some video of the large stripers in the water between Long Wharf and the Aquarium - and how they beat a frustrated duck to the hunks of bread he threw to them:
By adamg - 6/5/10 - 11:29 am
Romeo and Juliet? This year's swans are more like dual Lady Macbeths. Mike the Mad Biologist chronicles the avian war on the lagoon:
... One day I saw one swan prevent the flock of ducklings from entering the pond: wherever the ducks went to try to jump in, the swan was right there hissing at them. That day, the swan even jumped out of the water and pursued them on land.
By adamg - 5/16/10 - 6:45 pm
Itspeej reports a couple of baby ducks have fallen into a storm sewer on Queensbury and that BWSC and Boston Police are trying to get them out.
By adamg - 3/24/10 - 9:27 pm
Instead of a beautiful lagoon to float around in when they arrived in the Public Garden today, all they found was a giant field of mud, with a little rivulet running through it.
The Boston Parks Department says it had hoped to have the lagoon cleaned and ready for filling by now, but the nor'easter mucked things up.
By adamg - 2/11/10 - 11:51 pm
Wicked Local Cambridge reports the Cambridge Zoning Board of Appeals ruled tonight that a Putnam Street co-op house has to send its three ducks and two chickens to someplace more rural, such as Arlington.
By adamg - 2/8/10 - 11:28 pm
The owners of three Cayuga ducks and two Wyandotte chickens are blogging to keep Cambridge from banning their pets.
Seems the People's Republic currently doesn't regulate domestic fowl, but apparently some neighbors of an eight-person co-op house on Putnam Street are clucking about odors, noise, rats and, of course, the specter of deadly flu strains.
By adamg - 11/17/09 - 8:49 am
Steve Borichevsky photographs a king eider serenely bobbing in the water off Gloucester.
By adamg - 6/16/09 - 4:31 pm
Channel 5 posts photos of a duck and her ducklings crossing the street at Centre and Alaric today.
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