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 - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 10:55pm
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By adamg - Mon, 02/21/2022 - 9:05pm
Esperanza watched captured one of two swans heading off from East Boston into Chelsea Creek at sunset today.
Before the swan glided off, she reports, it and its partner shooed away some mallards for sole possession of the less than bucolic creek shoreline: Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/26/2022 - 1:17pm
One of the five swans at Jamaica Pond took a moment to ponder life shortly before sundown yesterday.
By adamg - Sun, 06/20/2021 - 12:53pm
A roving UHub photographer snapped this family portrait of Atticus the Swan - whose partner died not long after their babies were hatched - and his not-so-little cygnets out for a paddle at the Esplanade this morning.
By adamg - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 3:23pm
The Esplanade Association reports she died last night, and that a Boston animal-control officer was able to remove her body "while the father swan sat at the nest with their cygnets tucked under his wings."
Paddy G reports the two were forced to raise their young amidst man-made filth along the riverbank.
By adamg - Sun, 05/09/2021 - 6:27pm
Mary Ellen found herself way down upon the Swan-y River today, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
By adamg - Mon, 03/22/2021 - 7:23pm
Mary Ellen spotted a trio of swans seeming to have a neck contest in the mist along the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
By adamg - Fri, 02/26/2021 - 9:57pm
Mark McDonald reports that an apparently lonely swan in Mill Pond - the part of the Mother Brook that River Street crosses in Hyde Park - seemed to be a bit happier today now that its partner has rejoined it after several weeks of absence.
By adamg - Sun, 01/31/2021 - 8:24pm
Mary Ellen watched a couple of swans try to show each other who was King of Jamaica Pond today.
By adamg - Sun, 11/29/2020 - 8:03pm
Mary Ellen spotted a flotilla of swans today in Cow Island Pond, the lake-like part of the Charles River off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury.
By adamg - Sat, 05/02/2020 - 10:11pm
On a walk around Millennium Park in West Roxbury today, Mary Ellen spotted both an American kestrel - the smallest of the falcons - and some cygnets settling in for a nap. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/25/2020 - 2:42pm
Kelly Lewis spotted a pair of swans doing some social distancing off the Expressway in Dorchester today.
Meanwhile, over in Cambridge yesterday, Barb spotted a pair of turkeys who know that they now rule the roost outdoors, at least on Bellevue Avenue: Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 06/04/2019 - 10:45pm
Sangwiche captured a T worker trying to chase a swan off the Orange Line tracks at Assembly Row this morning (recall how the Orange Line was brought to a halt 10 or so days ago by a swan on the tracks): Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 05/10/2018 - 10:21am
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy shows us a typical Jamaica Pond scene in 1910.
As Ben Evans notes:
Feeding small children to swans was outlawed in 1923.
By adamg - Sat, 03/03/2018 - 4:54pm
Kelly Lewis reports at least one swan found a flooded Morrissey Boulevard to its liking today.
By adamg - Sun, 02/25/2018 - 12:05pm
There are three swans at the pond these days - a couple and a third wheel. Yesterday afternoon, all converged on the small island at the northern end of the pond, but the couple was not in a sharing mood - one of them broke off and drove away the third swan, which decided the middle of the pond wasn't so bad after all.
By adamg - Tue, 12/16/2014 - 11:04am
JB Parrett walked along the water at the Esplanade Lagoon yesterday.
By adamg - Fri, 05/30/2014 - 8:55am
Boston Mahk photographed Romeo and Juliet in the Public Garden this morning.
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