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Rare urban bird sighting
- Apr. 15th, 2008 at 8:33 PM
(cross-posted to urban-nature, b0st0n, and birdlovers)
Tags
- 365 angst
- 365 urban species
- 365 urban species media coverage
- 366 urgan species
- 3:00 snapshot
- abecedarium
- aberdeen
- accident
- adelgids
- adorable children
- african white-backed duck
- agelenopsis
- ailanthus
- ailanthus altissima
- alder
- alex
- alexis
- algae
- allston
- alzheimers
- american beech
- american black duck
- american cockroach
- american coot
- american crow
- american dog tick
- american goldfinch
- american holly
- american kestrel
- american robin
- american sea rocket
- american toad
- american wigeon
- amethyst deceiver
- ammonites in a blanket
- amphibians
- amypatt
- andean condor
- andy
- angst
- animal
- animal attacks
- animal cruelty
- animal phobias
- animal rights
- animal sacrifice
- animal shelters
- animals
- anneke
- anole
- antigua
- antlion
- ants
- apes
- aphids
- aphrodesiacs
- apples
- arabesque orbweaver
- arboretums
- arnold arboretum
- art
- artificial coyotes
- artist's conk
- ash tree bolete
- asiatic dayflower
- asters
- austin
- autumn
- baby ducks!
- bad taste
- balanced rocks
- balancing rocks
- baltimore checkerspot
- baltimore oriole
- banana slug
- bananaquit
- banyan tree
- barb
- barberry
- barn swallow
- barnacles
- barred owl
- bats
- bbt
- beach rose
- bears
- beautiful
- bee
- beech
- beer
- bees
- beetles
- beggarticks
- belle isle
- belmont
- bible bars
- big brown bat
- bikes
- bioluminescence
- birch polypore
- birch trees
- bird hill
- bird list
- bird song
- bird's nest fungus
- bird's world
- birdfeeders
- birding
- birds
- birdsfoot trefoil
- birthdays
- bittersweet
- bittersweet nightshade
- black and white
- black bear
- black duck
- black knot
- black locust
- black medick
- black nightshade
- black raspberry
- black squirrel
- black swallow-wort
- black-and-white warbler
- black-capped chickadee
- black-crowned night-heron
- blackbirds
- blazing saddles
- blimp
- bloodroot
- blue dasher
- blue hills
- blue jay
- blue poison dart frogs
- blue rabbit urine
- blue spruce
- bmx track
- boat-billed heron
- boletus bicolor
- bones
- books
- boston
- boston history
- boston ivy
- bowling for rhinos
- box turtle
- boxelder
- boxwood
- boyce field
- brambles
- brant
- brazilian cardinal
- brick top
- brighton
- bristletails
- broad-winged hawk
- brookine
- brookline
- brown creeper
- brown cup fungus
- bryozoan
- bs detector
- buckeyes
- buckthorn
- bufflehead
- bufo marinus
- bugs
- bullfinch
- bullfrog
- bumblebee
- bumper stickers
- bur oak
- burdock
- burning bush
- butter-and-eggs
- buttercup
- butterflies
- cabbage white
- caddisfly
- california poppy
- callahan state park
- callery pear
- calocera cornea
- cambridge
- camel cricket
- canada
- canada geese
- canada goldenrod
- canada goose
- canadian nightcrawler
- candy
- captive wildlife
- capture and restraint
- car free
- cardinal
- carmine
- carolina wren
- caroline
- carp
- carpenter ant
- carpenter bee
- carpetweed
- carrie
- carrion beetle
- cars
- cartoon
- cartoons
- castle island
- catalpa
- caterpillar
- caterpillars
- cats
- cats as meat
- cattail
- cattle egret
- cedar waxwing
- cedar-apple rust
- celandine
- cell phone
- cell phone towers
- cellar spider
- centipedes
- charlie
- chickadee
- chicken mushroom
- chickens
- chickweed
- chicory
- chile
- chimney swift
- chinese mystery snail
- chipmunks
- chironomid
- chives
- chocolate tube slime
- chondrostereum purpureum
- church
- cicada
- cinquefoil
- clay
- climate change
- clouds
- clover
- clutter
- cnidarians
- cob
- cocklebur
- cockroaches
- cold
- collembolans
- colonel
- comics
- common blue violet
- common buckthorn
- common carp
- common eider
- common goldeneye
- common grackle
- common groundsel
- common mallow
- common milkweed
- common redpoll
- common snapping turtle
- common snowberry
- common tern
- commuting
- complaints
- condylostylus
- conifers
- connecticut
- conocybe tenera
- cooper's hawk
- coots
- copperleaf
- coprinus
- coprinus disseminatus
- coral spot
- cormorant
- corn snake
- corvids
- costa rica
- costa rican zebra tarantula
- costumes
- cottonwood
- coughing mollusks
- coyotes
- crabapple
- crabs
- cranberry viburnum
- crane fly
- creationism
- creeping buttercup
- critcism
- critical mass
- criticism
- crocosmia
- crow
- crows
- crustaceans
- cryptids
- cryptozoology
- cucumber magnolia
- cucumbertree
- curly dock
- cutler park
- dad
- daddy long-legs
- daily zoo animal
- daisies
- daisy fleabane
- dandelion
- david attenborough
- david quammen
- dawn redwood
- daylily
- dead animals
- dead body
- dead man's fingers
- dead mice
- dead things
- deer
- deer enclosure
- deer island
- deer tick
- devil's beggarticks
- devil's coach horse
- devil's walkingstick
- disasters
- dock
- dodder
- dog stinkhorn
- dog vomit
- dogfish
- dogs
- dogtown
- dogwood
- dogwoods
- domestic animals
- domestic apple
- domestic dog
- domestic goose
- domestic rabbit
- domestic turkey
- doorways of brookline
- double-crested cormorant
- doves
- downy woodpecker
- dragonflies
- drain fly
- dreams
- driving
- drumin underground
- drumlin
- drumlin underground
- dryad's saddle
- ducks
- duckweed
- duncan
- dusky slug
- dycs
- dystopias
- early yellowrocket
- earth
- earthworm
- earwigs
- eastern chipmunk
- eastern cottontail
- eastern cottonwood
- eastern gray squirrel
- eastern hemlock
- eastern newt
- eastern phoebe
- eastern subterranean termite
- eastern white pine
- eating meat
- ebony jewelwing
- edible legos
- eiders
- elk farming
- email humor
- energy policy
- english garden snail
- english ivy
- english yew
- enrichment
- environment
- environmentalism
- errata
- eucalyptus
- euonymus
- european beech
- european black pine
- european buckthorn
- european earwig
- european green crab
- european holly
- european rabbit
- european starling
- evening primrose
- everett
- evolution
- exuvia
- eyelash cup
- fall
- family
- favorites
- fenway
- feral animals
- ferns
- finches
- fireweed
- fish
- fishing
- flann o'briens
- flat-backed millipede
- flatworms
- flicker
- flies
- flood
- flooding
- flowering crabapple
- flowering dogwood
- flying spaghetti monster
- flying squirrel
- food
- food choices
- food pictures
- food prohibitions
- forest hills
- forest park
- forks
- forsythia
- found objects
- fox
- foxes
- fpz
- framingham
- frankie
- franklin park
- franklin park zoo
- fresh pond
- freshwater bryozoan
- friends
- frogs
- fuligo septica
- fungi
- funnel web spider
- fur
- galisoga
- games
- garden centipede
- gardening
- garlic mustard
- garter snake
- gay marriage
- gbh
- geese
- get your war on
- giant milkweed
- ginkgo
- ginkgo biloba
- giraffe
- glaucous-winged gull
- global warming
- globular springtail
- gloucester
- goat's beard
- goats
- golden-crowned kinglet
- goldenrod
- goldfinch
- gore
- gorillas
- grackle
- grackles
- graffiti
- grain moth
- grasshoppers
- gray alder
- gray catbird
- gray kingbird
- gray squirrel
- gray treefrog
- great black-backed gull
- great blue heron
- great golden digger wasp
- great horned owl
- great-tailed grackle
- greater angle-winged katydid
- green bottle fly
- green frog
- green shield lichen
- green-throated carib
- greenhouse slug
- grevy's zebra
- grifola frondosa
- grossness
- ground beetle
- ground ivy
- groundnut
- groundsel
- gulls
- gun control
- ha ha i'm done!!!
- haiku
- hairy galinsoga
- halloween
- harbor seal
- hartford
- harvard
- harvestman
- hawaii
- hawk moth
- hawks
- heart-leaf aster
- helicopter
- hemlock
- hemlock woolly adelgid
- hen of the woods
- herons
- herring gull
- highbush cranberry
- history
- holidays
- holly
- homo sapiens
- honey locust
- honey mushroom
- honeybee
- honeybees
- honolulu
- hooded merganser
- horror
- horse chestnut
- horse pasture tree
- horse-chestnut
- horsenettle
- horses
- horses as meat
- horsetail
- horseweed
- house centipede
- house finch
- house fly
- house mouse
- house sparrow
- house sparrows
- housefly
- household pests
- household tips
- household wildlife
- hover fly
- human
- humane slaughter
- humans
- hummingbirds
- humor
- hunting
- hydrangea
- hymenoptera
- i hate the holidays
- ice
- id help
- imprinting
- indian meal moth
- indian peafowl
- indian pipe
- injured animals
- injuries
- insect foods
- insects
- invasive species
- irish moss
- irpex
- irpex lacteus
- isabella tiger moth
- isopods
- it didn't start as a rant...
- ivy
- ivy leaf morning glory
- jamaica plain
- jamaica pond
- jamiaca plain
- jamiaca pond
- japanese andromeda
- japanese barberry
- japanese beetle
- japanese creeper
- japanese knotweed
- japanese maple
- japanese pachysandra
- japanese yew
- jar of baby mantises
- jellies
- jellyfish
- jewelweed
- job-hunting
- jobs
- jumping spider
- junco
- juniper
- justin
- katydid
- katydids
- kauai
- kea
- kestrel
- kinglets
- kitombe
- komodo dragon
- kousa dogwood
- kuritake
- lady's thumb
- ladybug
- lamb
- lambsquarters
- landchovies
- landchovy
- leeches
- legumes
- leopard slug
- lepidoptera
- lesser antillian bullfinch
- lesser celandine
- lesser periwinkle
- lettuce aphid
- leverett pond
- leverettt pond
- libraries
- lichen
- lichens
- life
- lilac
- lincoln
- links
- little house fly
- lizards
- lj friends
- lj stuff
- log cabin caddisfly
- london planetree
- long legged fly
- lycium
- lycogala
- lynn woods
- lyrebird
- lyrics
- macros
- madagascar hissing cockroaches
- maggie
- magnolias
- maitake
- mallard
- mallow
- mammals
- manatee
- mandrill
- maples
- marine algae
- marine toad
- masai giraffe
- mass art
- mass audubon
- mass ave bridge
- mass extinction
- matrimony vine
- mealworms
- meat as pets
- megafauna
- meme
- memorial
- memphis
- mergansers
- metasequoia
- mexican free-tailed bat
- mica cap
- mice
- micrographs
- microorganisms
- midges
- milkweed aphid
- milkweeds
- millipedes
- mimic thrushes
- mission hill
- mock strawberry
- mockingbird
- mold
- mollie
- mollusks
- mom
- monarch
- monkeys
- monotropa
- monsters
- moon
- moon jelly
- moray eels
- more urban species
- morning glories
- moss
- moss glen falls
- mosses
- moth fly
- moths
- mourning cloak
- mourning dove
- movies
- moving
- mt. auburn
- mt. misery
- muddy river
- mugwort
- mulberry
- mule deer
- mules
- multiflora rose
- mundane details
- murals
- mushrooms
- music
- music video
- musings
- muskrat
- mustards
- mute swan
- mycorrhizal fungi
- mysterious deaths
- myxomycetes
- names
- narrowleaf plantain
- nasturtium
- national tropical botanical garden
- natural disasters
- naughty bits
- needham
- nematode
- nene
- neponset river
- netflix
- new england
- new hampshire
- new york
- newpaper
- newpaper article
- news
- newspaper article
- newts
- night
- nightcrawler
- nightshades
- non-biting midge
- non-collection animals
- noon hill
- norris reservation
- northern acorn barnacle
- northern cardinal
- northern catalpa
- northern dusky salamander
- northern flicker
- northern mockingbird
- northern pintail
- northern red oak
- northern shoveler
Comments
Of course, you didn't have a Scott's Oriole.