By adamg - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 10:26pm

Both Boston and Cambridge firefighters responded to the banks of the Charles River around 4:45 p.m. on reports of people walking on the river, roughly in the area of Fairfield Street in the Back Bay. Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 10:55pm

Jim Sullivan, who along with several other swan fans, had watched over Marble the swan since his hatching last year in Ward's Pond, reports that Marble was found dead today on the ice at Jamaica Pond, likely a victim of the avian flu that has killed other waterfowl there in recent weeks. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 02/10/2025 - 12:58pm

Or maybe somebody just likes all the raptors that have been showing up at Jamaica Pond lately. Trout House Comics shows us what's written in the snow on the pond today.

Workers preparing to uproot dying tree on the banks of Jamaica Pond
By adamg - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:38am

Anya Levy Guyer was at Jamaica Pond this morning when workers began setting up to take down one of the pond's odder, but most beloved trees - the one that had long bent down toward the water, but which began dying late in 2022, a process that accelerated this year as the once narrow split in its trunk grew ever wider and the tree began to pitch itself ever lower into the water. Read more.

Looking across Jamaica Pond after sundown
By adamg - Mon, 11/11/2024 - 8:32pm

The view from the north side of Jamaica Pond to the south after the sun went down this evening.

Grizzled old tree at Jamaica Pond still hanging on, if barely
By adamg - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 2:31pm

The old leaning tree on the Pond Street side of Jamaica Pond didn't seem like it would make it this year - the crack in its trunk widened into a mini-cavern with enough space to support several families of squirrels and it tipped even more down toward the water, enough so that you could no longer use its outer branches to gauge just full the pond was. Read more.

Tree on the banks of Jamaica Pond
By adamg - Sun, 11/03/2024 - 8:11pm

A tree on the banks of Jamaica Pond, with the still green willow on the pond's one island, this afternoon.

By adamg - Mon, 08/12/2024 - 12:00pm

Jamaica Plain News reports Hyde Park's Roundhead Brewing will take over the Pinebank promontory at Jamaica Pond Aug. 16-17 and Aug. 23-24 for a beer garden that will feature both beer and "farm-to-plate Caribbean American eats."

Snoozing duck and ducklings
By adamg - Sat, 05/18/2024 - 11:00am

A family of ducks settled in for a snooze on the northern shore of Jamaica Pond yesterday afternoon (dad was equally asleep, a foot or two away).

Pair of turtles that had climbed into the sun at Jamaica Pond
By adamg - Sat, 03/16/2024 - 5:24pm

This afternoon, there were at least five turtles that climbed out of the water for some sun at the traditional turtle sunning spot on the northernish side of Jamaica Pond, including these two, which got a bit more vertical than the three lazing about on a more horizontal tree branch.

Word rocks at Jamaica Pond
By adamg - Sun, 03/10/2024 - 6:50pm

Somebody left a bunch of small word rocks on top of one large rock near the Jamaica Pond boathouse.

Two Boston Park rangers get horses ready for a ride around Jamaica Pond
By adamg - Tue, 01/23/2024 - 4:56pm

A couple of Boston park rangers used the hitching post in front of the Jamaica Pond gazebo to get their steeds ready for some hoofing around the pond this afternoon.

Hooded mergansers
By adamg - Sat, 11/18/2023 - 12:21pm

The hooded mergansers are back at Jamaica Pond for their annual fall visit.

Sunset starts over Jamaica Pond
By adamg - Fri, 10/27/2023 - 5:39pm

From the north side of Jamaica Pond this afternoon.

By adamg - Wed, 10/25/2023 - 12:00pm

The Boston Public Health Commission has lifted its advisory against fishing - mostly ignored - boating and letting your dog splash in Jamaica Pond, because the now annual toxic algal bloom has subsided.

By adamg - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 11:58am

Spontaneous Celebrations announced today it's postponed the annual lantern festival from this weekend to next, in the hopes we won't get more rain then.

However, lantern making - indoors - is still on for this weekend at the group's offices at 45 Danforth St.

Via Jamaica Plain News.

Seagull at Jamaica Pond
By adamg - Thu, 10/19/2023 - 11:10pm

When you think of birds at Jamaica Pond, what normally comes to mind are ducks, geese, maybe cormorants and swans. There's usually a flock of seagulls, too, it's just they rarely get near the shore - let alone come up and stand on it, like this gull did late this afternoon.

Sign at Jamaica Pond warning people not to drink or go in the water
By adamg - Sat, 10/07/2023 - 5:06pm

One of the signs that went up around Jamaica Pond yesterday after the Boston Public Health Commission confirmed a toxic bloom of blue-green algae that can make people sick and kill dogs.

By adamg - Fri, 10/06/2023 - 3:42pm

The Boston Public Health Commission said today it's put Jamaica Pond off limits to people and pets due to what has become an annual explosion of toxic blue-green algae. Read more.

Baby wood ducks growing up fast
By adamg - Sun, 06/25/2023 - 11:41am

This time of year, the mallards are usually the main duck species at Jamaica Pond, but this June the wood ducks are giving them a run for their money - instead of the normal one mother wood duck and her brood, there are two, maybe three other families paddling around the pond.