Hawks

Hawk takes up perch in Green Street Orange Line station

By adamg - 12/29/16 - 2:12 pm

Hawk at Green Street station on the Orange Line

This hawk was perched near the elevator in the Green Street station in Jamaica Plain this morning.

Earlier:
Hawk hurt at Back Bay station.

Hawk hurt at Back Bay station

By adamg - 12/27/16 - 12:46 pm

UPDATE: The Animal Rescue League came to take the hawk for evaluation and rehab.

Around 12:20 p.m., Matt Fede reported this apparently injured hawk was sitting outside Back Bay station, on the Dartmouth Street side, as police stood by awaiting somebody who could take care of it.

Maybe it's the one that flew into the station yesterday?

Imagine coming home to this at your front door

By adamg - 11/12/16 - 3:08 pm

Hawk outside somebody's door in the Back Bay

Casie Gillette stopped to look at the hawk outside somebody's front door on Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay today.

Can't a guy eat in peace around here?

By adamg - 10/28/16 - 8:36 am

Finn was among the people watching this raptor eat breakfast at Haymarket this morning.

You're sitting at your desk when you look up and there's this hawk right in your face

By adamg - 1/4/16 - 11:50 pm

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Nate Russell snapped this visitor today on a little ledge outside his company's offices on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. "We've seen him before in the trees but never this close," he reports.

Lunch is served

By adamg - 11/22/15 - 6:50 pm

Harry Mattison got a great shot of a hawk on a fence in Allston today - holding the carcass of whatever it was planning to eat.

There'll be no pizza rats on his watch

By adamg - 9/23/15 - 11:16 am

Aram Boghosian reports he opened his window in East Somerville this morning to find a rather large bird staring back at him.

Hawk catches Rozzie rat for dinner

By adamg - 7/5/15 - 6:34 pm

Ed Grzyb went out into his Roslindale backyard this evening to see this scene:

Apparently this hawk wanted to grill the rat he caught tonight.

Area blue jays were not amused

By adamg - 6/27/15 - 12:53 pm

The other day, LadyLazerJ spotted these two hawks perched outside her office on Hampshire Street in Kendall Square - where they stayed for about two hours.

They were seriously pissing off the blue jays.

Copyright LadyLazerJ. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Boston is for the birds

By adamg - 4/22/15 - 6:41 pm

Capt. Nemo spotted a turkey strolling around the Academy Hill area in Brighton today, and wondered what it was doing there, instead of terrorizing people in Brookline.

Roving UHub photographer Alkali, meanwhile, spotted a hawk perched atop a light pole at the intersection of Huntington and South Huntington Avenues:

Commuters not only ones feeling trapped by the T these days

By adamg - 2/28/15 - 9:48 pm

Hawk trapped in Alewife station on the Red Line in Cambridge

Curt Nickisch phototographed this poor hawk unable to figure a way out of Alewife station around 7:30 p.m. The Animal Rescue League reports a happy ending to this tale:

Got word that the hawk was caught and moved outside.

Can't a guy eat his lunch in peace around here?

By adamg - 12/19/14 - 12:01 am

Francisco Urena spotted an East Boston hawk enjoying a light repast this afternoon in Wood Island.

Earlier:
East Boston hawk makes an appearance.

Looks like somebody could use a comb

By adamg - 12/14/14 - 10:08 am

How'd you like to walk out your door Sunday morning and be greeted by this fine specimen? Molly Hester spotted the bird on a Cambridgeport front porch this morning.

Fine dining at Harvard Law...

By Milwaukee Mike - 12/5/14 - 10:11 am

The squirrel's dilemma: put on weight for winter or stay nimble enough to avoid becoming something's lunch?

Keep the hamsters and small children inside, Eastie

By adamg - 11/30/14 - 1:18 pm

Alex Howell reports a red-tailed hawk has taken up residence on a Lexington Street roof.

A little pre-Thanksgiving repast in the West End

By adamg - 11/26/14 - 7:17 pm

Neil the roving UHub photographer spotted this hawk with a dead squirrel behind 50 Staniford St. this morning (doesn't appear to be one of the West End's fabled white squirrels). He reports:

Has a dead squirrel. Sat on ground for a while then flew off with prey. Squirrel got caught on fence and bird landed on statue's head.

Hawk takes out drone in skies over Cambridge

By adamg - 10/10/14 - 5:37 am

Christopher Schmidt reports he was flying his quadcopter over Magazine Beach on Wednesday when a hawk took exception to the craft's existence. Both bird and drone appeared to survive OK (Schmidt says he shut off the rotors to avoid hurting the bird).

H/t Swrrlygirl.

Looking for dinner in Brighton?

By adamg - 6/19/14 - 10:36 pm

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Joe Giza at WBZ posted this photo of a pair of hawks atop the old Channel 38 tower on Leo F. Birmingham Parkway in Brighton this evening.

CBS, which still uses the WSBK building as studios for some of its Boston radio stations, has a camera up there, he reports, adding that until tonight, just one hawk had been showing up there regularly.