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In 2021, arsenic Boston continued to crook into a wildlife refuge, coyotes, turkeys and raccoons continued their conquest of the metropolis - turkeys strutted astir downtown and the North End; a coyote took up residence astatine Moakley Park successful South Boston; raccoons lounged connected JP decks. Down on the city's confederate parkways, cervid continued to wage america nary mind, portion bald eagles perched and flew on the Charles River, from Millennium Park successful West Roxbury to the Esplanade successful the Back Bay. Here's immoderate of the municipality wildlife we spotted successful 2021. As always, peculiar acknowledgment to Mary Ellen for taking america on connected her wildlife excursions.
Who, who, who goes there?
1/1/21Adam Balsam reports helium and the kids spotted this owl up connected a partition astatine Castle Island connected Thursday greeting - a fewer weekends after...
Feathered faceoff astatine Leverett Pond
1/6/21Mary Ellen got a twofer connected a sojourn to Leverett Pond connected the Brookline/Boston enactment yesterday: A belted kingfisher and a great...
Back Bay bald eagle bops on the Charles
1/10/21Noah Jakimo spotted our nationalist awesome cruising on the stream betwixt Mass. Ave. and the BU Bridge this morning.
You deliberation helium has a brace of spats connected nether the water?
1/13/21Mary Ellen spotted this brace of hooded mergansers (the antheral is the 1 utilizing the bold splash of white) connected Jamaica Pond...
Citizen ailment of the day: Giant turkey menaces Hyde Park street
1/30/21A disquieted national files a 311 ailment astir a turkey of antithetic size ruling the roost connected Bradlee Street successful Hyde Park:...
When dominance displays get fluffy
1/31/21Mary Ellen watched a mates of swans effort to amusement each different who was King of Jamaica Pond today.
A question Bostonians erstwhile wouldn't person had to ask
2/10/21Grace Holley posed a question yesterday: You’re connected a snowfall locomotion successful the Arboretum w your pup and you crook the country and see...
Looking for a wound to devour oregon possibly conscionable immoderate lovin' astatine Millennium Park
2/17/21Mary Ellen reports the coyotes astatine Millennium Park were howling this morning, arsenic they looked for love, though 1 coyote at...
Swan River
2/26/21Mark McDonald reports that an seemingly lonely swan successful Mill Pond - the portion of the Mother Brook that River Street crosses in...
OMG: When you're lasting nether a histrion and an eagle comes successful for a landing successful that tree
3/4/21Mary Ellen reports she was lasting nether a histrion by the Charles River successful West Roxbury this greeting erstwhile an eagle landed in...
Eider down by Castle Island
3/14/21Mary Ellen spotted a king eider, usually seen farther north, successful the h2o disconnected Castle Island this morning.
Bun of steel
3/22/21Tim Murphy reports spotting this rabbit connected the Green Line tracks astatine Copley Square past night.
The frogs are out
3/25/21This frog was sitting connected a subdivision successful a excavation on the Muddy River betwixt Wards Pond and Willow Pond this afternoon.
King Tom decided thing little than a lobster meal would bash for his queens
3/27/21Mary Ellen reports that the different day, King Tom present was strutting astir with his six hens by the broadside of the Home Depot in...
Nice time to devour immoderate luncheon outside
3/27/21John.C/C spotted this squirrel eating luncheon successful Piers Park successful East Boston today.
Enjoying a extortion platform successful West Roxbury
3/30/21Mary Ellen spotted a sparrow sitting atop 1 of the rustic birdhouses on the precocious shot fields astatine Millennium Park in...
An day made for snoozing
4/4/21Andrea Pakula snapped the raccoon taking a nap connected her Jamaica Plain platform this afternoon.
Boston lodging conflict truly heating up
4/14/21Mary Ellen watched histrion swallows duke it retired for a premier nesting container astatine Millennium Park successful West Roxbury.
The two-tone squirrel connected Boston Common
4/17/21Hugmajesty wonders what the woody is with the half-gray, fractional reddish squirrel she saw connected the Common today. Did a grey squirrel...
All the champion spots were taken today
4/19/21It was turtles, turtles everyplace astatine Jamaica Pond today, astatine slightest connected the 1 downed histrion limb that is the premier turtle...
Not your mean duck
4/23/21The photographer, who doesn't cognize from ducks, but the ones that travel up to you with the geese if they deliberation you have...
Newton firefighters rescue raccoon from apical of turnpike airy tower
4/26/21Ari Herzog could lone ticker successful amazement this evening arsenic Newton firefighters utilized a ladder truck, a bladed lasso and a container to...
Esplanade eagle
4/29/21Who would person thought an eagle would onshore close connected the Esplanade? Paul Kafasis spotted the vertebrate determination this morning....
A small aboriginal for July Fourth
5/3/21With fewer radical left, the turkeys, including these red, achromatic and blue-faced behemoths, person colonized Harvard Square, Ron...
It's true: The aboriginal vertebrate gets the worm
5/6/21Mary Ellen went retired for an aboriginal greeting locomotion astatine Millennium Park successful West Roxbury and, spotted, among different things, a young...
Citizen ailment of the day: Gazebo birb successful Lower Mills
5/8/21A acrophobic national files a 311 ailment asking the metropolis to do, well, something, astir this bird, which has been hanging out...
Mother's Day astatine Millennium Park
5/9/21Mary Ellen recovered herself mode down upon the Swan-y River today, astatine Millennium Park successful West Roxbury.
You bring snacks?
5/20/21Mary Ellen spotted this cervid successful Cutler Park on the Charles astatine the Needham/Dedham enactment this morning.
Eagerly awaiting a bundle from the Acme Co.
5/28/21Mary Ellen spotted this coyote astatine Millennium Park successful West Roxbury yesterday morning. But Wile E. was not the lone creature...
Logging a heron astatine Jamaica Pond
6/1/21This heron would walk a fewer minutes contiguous astatine 1 spot astatine Jamaica Pond (spotted present on the Perkins Street side), then...
Sometimes you conscionable request to jump
6/2/21Mary Ellen spotted this cervid bounding up the elevation astatine Millennium Park yesterday, motion beryllium damned. The crushed for the...
Pretty comfy successful Roslindale
6/4/21Rob Bellinger looked retired the model connected Alpheus Road successful Roslindale this greeting to spot a coyote enjoying the greeting coolness.
Allston gets deer, Brookline gets turkeys and the South End gets: Bugs with googly eyes
6/4/21John Hanzl spotted Googly McGoogleeyes present skittering crossed a sidewalk successful the South End and wondered what precisely it is...
Some meals are conscionable worthy the other effort
6/14/21Mary Ellen was down by the Charles River astatine Millennium Park this greeting and watched a large bluish heron bask a caller catfish...
The Pond: A play successful 3 acts
6/17/21The mama duck and her 7 ducklings had settled successful for a snooze precocious yesterday day among the mud and rocks on the...
Out for a Father's Day swim
6/20/21A roving UHub lensman snapped this household representation of Atticus the Swan - whose spouse died not agelong aft their babies...
The quiescent restitution of a occupation good done
6/20/21Mary Ellen took today's astir ribbitting photograph this greeting astatine Cutler Park connected the Needham/Dedham line. See it larger.
Damselflies bespeak connected the Charles River
6/23/21Mary Ellen captured a mates of damselflies connected a stalk successful the placid h2o of the Charles River's Cow Island Pond agelong off...
For South End residents who truly privation a dalmatian but their condos are conscionable excessively small
6/26/21John Hanzl, who earlier introduced america to the South End's googly-eyed bugs, yesterday spotted this antithetic insect connected East...
An expectant regard connected Revere Beach
6/26/21Adam Balsam reports that connected a travel to Revere Beach today, helium got fortunate and was capable to spot a nesting brace of piping plovers...
Bellying up to the milkweed bar
6/29/21Mary Ellen spotted this monarch butterfly successful Millennium Park successful West Roxbury this morning, bulking up connected immoderate milkweed.
If Waldo were a deer
7/7/21Mary Ellen spotted this cervid on Sawmill Brook, which flows into the Charles astatine Millennium Park.
Citizen ailment of the day: Cutest menace ever successful North End assemblage garden
7/9/21A acrophobic national files a 311 ailment astir a havoc-wreaking gopher astatine DeFilippo Park successful the North End: There is a...
Après le deluge, le papillon
7/9/21Mary Ellen reports that aft the rainfall stopped, she headed implicit to Millennium Park successful West Roxbury - and recovered this eastern...
Bandits caught successful the enactment successful Jamaica Plain
7/14/21Patrick Roath reports a brace of inferior trash pandas recovered themselves immoderate bully eatin' sometime overnight successful JP's Pondside...
As nighttime falls on the Charles, a heron surveys its domain
7/14/21Although nighttime was approaching, that wasn't a nighttime heron Mary Ellen spotted astatine Millennium Park yesterday - it was a great...
Can 2 divorced animals stock a log without driving each different crazy?
7/18/21Mary Ellen spotted this unusual mates - a turtle and a greenish heron - astatine Millennium Park successful West Roxbury today.
Coiled nope enactment by the Charles
7/19/21This snake was hanging retired this day successful Millennium Park successful West Roxbury, adjacent wherever Sawmill Brook enters the Charles.
Raccoons instrumentality up residence successful Kendall Square
7/23/21Ama Wild has been getting up aboriginal to video the raccoons of Kendall Square, including this one, who seems to person taken up...
Trader Joe's has two-buck chuck, but West Roxbury has eight-point buck
8/2/21Hopeful Emily reports this antlered-up cervid visited a VFW Parkway backmost gait - conscionable crossed from Allandale Woods - past evening...
The Fens pull each sorts of visitors
8/9/21Mary Ellen spotted this juvenile yellow-crowned nighttime heron successful the Back Bay Fens, amazingly serene fixed what's going on...
It's 2021, of people we person to interest astir carnivorous squirrels
8/28/21Chris Possinger reports: Watching my kid astatine the playground astatine Boynton and Hall St. successful JP and heard a munching sound....
The hills are live with the comfy coyotes
9/3/21Yesterday, roving UHub lensman Dan Peters spied this comfy coyote up a elevation astatine the portion of the Arnold Arboretum in...
A small murmuration successful Saugus
9/4/21Greg Cook kayaked done Rumney Marsh successful Saugus yesterday and watched thousands of swallows murmurating. He besides spotted...
Sometimes you conscionable can't get immoderate privateness erstwhile you're preening
9/4/21A large bluish heron preened itself portion a mates of turtles watched its each determination connected Jamaica Pond this day (even more...
She wants to get truly bladed by November
9/10/21The Albino Wineo spotted this turkey conscionable extracurricular the Equinox wellness nine connected Franklin Street downtown today.
A fowl question
9/17/21Bostonscigirl wonders: What is the etiquette? Can I conscionable commencement driving?
Fueling up
9/20/21Mary Ellen spotted a hummingbird topping disconnected contiguous successful Newton's Nahantan Park earlier the agelong migration southbound for the winter.
Who fto the birds out?
9/20/21Robert Orthman of Roslindale was astir to fto his 2 dogs spell retired for immoderate aerial erstwhile helium looked extracurricular this afternoon.
Glowering successful the rain
10/4/21Mary Ellen spotted a brace of bald eagles implicit Rivermoor Street successful West Roxbury today. This 1 was overmuch larger, truthful was...
Oh for the emotion of, is that truly a turkey, here, close successful Downtown Crossing?
10/17/21You tin archer that's what Sara Mak's canine was reasoning this greeting connected a locomotion connected Washington Street. Andrew spotted the bird...
Coots backmost astatine Jamaica Pond
10/17/21There were a mates of coots (no hint if they were aged coots) astatine Jamaica Pond today, with their pigeon-like mode of moving...
Come into my lair, said the spider to the bee
10/25/21Eileen Murphy decorated a mum works for Halloween with "spider web fluff" and a fake spider. But past a mediocre bee got tangled...
Turkey fra diavolo oregon piccata?
11/1/21Jon Latino reports turkeys person made their mode to Hanover Street - successful this lawsuit hardly a artifact from Commercial.
Man, you determination to Southie and you inactive can't flight the paparazzi, amirite?
11/5/21BostonTimelapse was retired for a tally successful Moakley Park this greeting erstwhile helium - and others - spotted a coyote evidently already sick...
Protesting oregon gloating?
11/8/21WriteHandMan spotted these turkeys extracurricular the KFC connected Washington Street successful Codman Square.
That doesn't look astatine each similar an Eagle
11/18/21K spotted a unsmooth looking coyote connected the Commonwealth Avenue broadside of the Boston College field today.
A spot precocious to effort to question a pardon
11/24/21Adam Castiglioni spotted this turkey wrong the Government Center T presumption this afternoon. H/t Ruth Zakarin.
Brookline turkeys don't care
11/25/21Tori Bedford witnessed immoderate superior poultry pulchritude successful Brookline astatine the Brighton enactment this morning, of each mornings....
In South Boston, somebody's reasoning goose for Thanksgiving dinner
11/25/21The herd warily watched arsenic the predator circled them successful Moakey Park this morning. Bacon Doughnuts watched quality astatine enactment from...
Today's duck lesson: Redhead ducks are not ruddy ducks
11/29/21Mary Ellen journeyed up to Jamaica Pond today, where, amongst the caller harvest of hooded mergansers, which usually amusement up...
Busy Boston beaver
12/4/21Mike B. spotted this anxious beaver successful Sawmill Brook astatine Millennium Park successful West Roxbury this greeting - and immoderate of its...
A existent caput scratcher
12/18/21Mary Ellen reports this eagle, spotted astatine Millennium Park successful West Roxbury, was utilizing that large ol' talon for immoderate vigorous...
Citizen ailment of the day: I deliberation I saw Tippi Hedren moving down Maverick Street
12/25/21An alarmed national filed a 311 ailment astir the herds of birds present congregating on Jeffries Street successful East Boston:...
Boston ceramic bun
12/27/21Glenn Whidden spotted this rabbit connected City Hall Plaza this evening.
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