Mary Ellen spotted this osprey in Squantum yesterday.
Squantum
The state Department of Environmental Protection yesterday granted Boston the permit it needs to rebuild the Long Island Bridge, which will let it re-open Long Island as a recovery and treatment campus. Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted this willet in the Squantum marshes in Quincy, reports it was quite the chatty bird.
Why should the South Boston snow pile get all the publicity? Lee Toma visited the Squantum Point snow pile today:
It is still twelve feet tall! Also, so disgusting.
Across the city today, winter-weary Bostonians shed their coats, or, at least, unzipped them a bit as they marveled at temperatures that approached 60.
On Carson Beach in South Boston, Eileen Murphy watched a game of volleyball (a brisk wind aided the windsurfers in Pleasure Bay).
In the Public Garden, as 617 Images shows us, a couple actually had a picnic: