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By adamg - 9/28/21 - 12:50 pm
Fuzzy squirrel

At Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday, Mary Ellen spotted this squirrel who just wanted to be left alone.

By adamg - 8/28/21 - 4:14 pm
Squirrel and the vertebra it was munching on

Possinger's before and after shots.

Chris Possinger reports:

Watching my kid at the playground at Boynton and Hall St. in JP and heard a munching sound. Looked over and it was a squirrel munching on a large vertebrae. Called the Staties just in case, but I don't think it's human.

By adamg - 7/23/21 - 12:55 pm
A raccoon in a Kendall Square wall

Ama Wild has been getting up early to video the raccoons of Kendall Square, including this one, who seems to have taken up residence in a wall: Read more.

By adamg - 4/17/21 - 9:19 pm
Two-tone squirrel

Hugmajesty wonders what the deal is with the half-gray, half red squirrel she saw on the Common today. Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/21 - 7:56 pm
Squirrel eating lunch at Piers Park in East Boston

John.C/C spotted this squirrel eating lunch in Piers Park in East Boston today.

By adamg - 12/7/20 - 1:02 pm
Albino squirrel at Jamaica Pond

Mary Ellen journeyed over to Jamaica Pond this morning and promptly spotted its fabled white squirrel - and an eared grebe, which normally doesn't come further east than Illinois (so maybe carried here by the weekend storm?): Read more.

By adamg - 11/10/20 - 10:28 am
Black squirrel

Way down here in remotest Roslindale, our squirrels seem to come in one variety: Gray. So on a trip up to the South End this morning, this black squirrel, foraging along Harrison Avenue, came as a bit of a surprise.

Well, at least to us. He has quite the fan base already: Read more.

By adamg - 5/21/20 - 5:52 pm
Squirrel with a cup of JP Licks to go

Suzanne Hinton spotted a squirrel going nuts over a JP Licks cup at Flaherty Playground in Jamaica Plain today.

Earlier:
Toasted bagel, hold the shmear.

By adamg - 2/14/20 - 12:44 pm
A squirrel and his nuts in South Boston

Eileen Murphy put out some treats for Rocky, a regular visitor to her South Boston porch.

By adamg - 1/13/20 - 2:39 pm
White squirrel on Hawkins Street

Shaneoinsaino spotted this little guy today on Hawkins Street, off of New Chardon Street, adds:

This kind of camo isn't that effective around Government Center.

By adamg - 12/23/19 - 9:32 am
Car fire in Acton

Photo by Acton PD.

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Acton Police report a car erupted in flames this morning.

Early investigation indicates it was possibly a squirrel's nest.

By adamg - 12/13/19 - 10:49 am

Julio Salado videoed a short miscreant in a fur coat on his neighbor's porch in Malden: Read more.

By adamg - 12/8/19 - 1:36 pm
Plump squirrel wants more nuts

Eileen Murphy reports a squirrel that would seem to be more than amply ready for winter keeps coming up to her South Boston window demanding more peanuts.

By adamg - 9/18/19 - 1:20 pm
Squirrel getting a drink from the Boston Public Garden lagoon

A squirrel held on tight as she got a drink from the Public Garden lagoon this afternoon.

By damaskin - 8/4/19 - 9:25 am

Steve the White Squirrel.

By adamg - 6/18/19 - 10:09 am

A concerned citizen files a 311 request to get a replacement for the lid for one of the two garbage cans in the playground at Commonwealth Avenue and Clarendon Street in the Back Bay: Read more.

By adamg - 5/3/19 - 8:20 pm
By adamg - 4/15/19 - 11:00 pm

Regardless of his or her name, the white squirrel of the Public Garden is back: Read more.

By adamg - 12/9/18 - 2:14 pm
Fox eating a squirrel

Roving UHub photographer Gad Liwerant stopped to watch a fox enjoy a little squirrel snack on Chestnut Hill Road in Newton, between Hammond Street and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

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