Kristin MacDougall spotted what appears to be a hawk inside Airport station on the Blue Line this morning.
Earlier:
Watching the Green Line like a hawk - and riding it like one, too.
MBTA starts new rodent-control program at Haymarket.
Hawk takes up perch in Green Street Orange Line station.
The New England Wildlife Center reports its workers captured four more birds along the oil-besotted Muddy River in need of cleaning and rehab today, bringing the total number of birds it now has under care to 43. Read more.
Along with all the ducks and geese, a bald eagle perched up in a tree along the Muddy River today, surveying the geese paddling down below in the oil-infused water, near the pedestrian bridge over the Green Line to Carlton Street.
The Brookline Select Board said tonight that state environmental experts have taken the lead in figuring out where the oil that coated birds in the Muddy River downstream from Leverett Pond and that the source has yet to be identified. Read more.
Oil-covered goose near Longwood.
Brookline and Boston firefighters responded to the Muddy River and Leverett Pond this afternoon on reports of oil - and a heavy petroleum odor, spreading from Leverett Pond at the rear of the Brook House at 33 Pond Ave. in Brookline and at least as far north as the Longwood Green Line stop. Read more.
Jordan Frias spotted this turkey rafter at a bus stop at Massachusetts and Putnam avenues in Cambridge today.
Mary Ellen was down in Plymouth this morning and spotted an eagle eating breakfast atop Flag Rock and a dolphin swimming nearby. And then a lobster boat puttered by.
More (caveat: some blood and guts): Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted these American goldfinches in their fall finery this morning at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
Mary Ellen spotted this great egret doing a little noshing in the Charles River off Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
On a walk in Millennium Park along the Charles yesterday morning, Mary Ellen's view changed from an egret (and hidden heron) in the calm, morning mist to the frenetic bounding of a pair of young deer: Read more.
Lilyan Hashim was walking around the Brookline Reservoir when she spotted a cormorant being all cormoranty and spreading its wings while perched on a rock yesterday. Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted a pair of black-crowned night herons keeping an eye out for coppers, or maybe just a big fish, at Millennium Park yesterday.
Mary Ellen somehow spotted a goldfinch among the golden flowers at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
The other day, Mary Ellen spotted the glossy ibis that's been bringing all the birders down to the Millennium Park kayak launch the last week or so.
Hugmajesty spotted our rare fly-in brown booby hanging out near Carson Beach with one of the local cormorants, in sharp contrast to yesterday's attempt by some of the meaner gulls to chase it off. Also note its feet are yellowish - you're thinking of blue-footed boobies, which are a different species altogether, one found in the eastern Pacific.
Mary Ellen was among the bird enthusiasts who gathered on the beach between the Curley Community Center and Carson Beach today for a chance to photograph the brown booby that decided to head north for some time in the Hub.
The booby in action - look at that neck go: Read more.
Tim Murphy reports this hawk rode a BC trolley from the Government Center loop to at least Arlington, where he snapped these photos, today, wonders if anybody had the heart to tell the hawk that BC is probably the wrong school for it.
GBH reports on efforts to help the peregrine chicks born atop Boston skyscrapers - like at the Christian Science Center. By the GBH reporter who has already made his name for stories like this: Craig LeMoult.
Bobby Boyd went for a walk along the Neponset River Greenway in Mattapan and Milton the other day. Among the things he saw was a snake resting in a tight space on the Milton end of the Harvest River Bridge, a goose of the non-Canada variety near that and a pair of deer on an islet in the river between Central Avenue and Capen Street. Read more.
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