Gov. Healey announced today that Nibi the beaver is safe to stay with the Chelmsford wildlife rehabbers who have raised her since she was just a wee nibbler, ordering MassWildlife not to make good on its plot to force a two-year-old with no wilderness experience to survive on her own: Read more.
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Mary Ellen watched this beaver at Cow Island Pond (the part of the Charles off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury) make several trips with fresh greens the other day - so maybe bringing lunch home for the kids, rather than doing construction.
It's got to be frustrating to be a Millennium Park beaver these days: There's just not enough water to dam up along the Charles, but especially in Sawmill Brook, which no longer empties into the Charles because it no longer flows. This morning, Mary Ellen spotted this once eager beaver forced to waddle across mud and what's left of the water.
Update: Mary Ellen posted video showing that the little guy was able to get a bit of a swim in.
Mike B. spotted this eager beaver in Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning - and some of its toothwork. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen spotted this beaver giving her the eye as he or she swam in the Charles at Millennium Park this morning, near a big beaver house where Sawmill Brook empties into the river.
The Wilbur Theater posted a larger version of this photo today along with this caption:
Beaver caught by police on Washington st in Chinatown. In white box.