What have you seen lately?

[50wt]

Two coyotes during daylight. One was on 195 just before fairhaven, a coyote with a thick , rusty white coat. Then today, a smaller coyote playing frogger on 140n south 79.

And two perched bald eagles in lakeville caught through some binoculars and a cell phone. Left my camera at home, figures.

 

[smokey-seven]

And two perched bald eagles in lakeville caught through some binoculars and a cell phone.

Points for creative photography!

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[dezignguy]

Bunnies !

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Buzzards on the roof of my new jobsite. I'm not sure if it's a bad omen or just a convenient place to see the cornfield.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Pretty sure it's haunted now. Run. Run fast.

 

[Dennis in MA]

My assistant was at her campground in Carver. Found a hognose that was rattle-snaking. (It bulks up then hisses like a rattler rattles. It's pretty strange.)

 

[bob king]

I was bored today so I put the kayak in the pond and paddled around for awhile. I saw a red tail hawk that's nested around here, I saw lots of red winged black birds and lots of frogs and turtles posing their heads out of the water and when I got back to the dock this guy was staring at me.

 

[bob king]

I was kayaking in the North River the other day. It was very windy and I was being pushed around all over the place. No strippers were injured that day, I had to take a few pictures to enjoy the day

 

[smokey-seven]

Canada Geese have hatched, 2 families, one with 6 and one with 7 goslings. Mallards are through their first brood, 6 and 8 chicks per family.

My mated pair of Red Winged Blackbirds, chicks are due to fledge soon.

 

[Dennis in MA]

I find that strippers make awful kayak companions. Their arms are not beefy and with those platform heels, they can't get a good position to even get leverage on the paddles.



Saw a juvi eagle at the lake for a few seconds on Saturday while putting the boat in. He was there and gone pretty quick. I guess there weren't any herring nearby.

 

[smokey-seven]

This flashed by my window and I grabbed a pic. Great White Egret or White Heron.

 

[not new guy]

Saw a juvi eagle at the lake for a few seconds on Saturday while putting the boat in. He was there and gone pretty quick. I guess there weren't any herring nearby.

I took my 2 oldest to check out the Herring Run in Weymouth a few days ago but we were apparently late. I think we saw the last 2 fish of the year trying (pathetically) to make it up the ladders. We went up to the pond at the end where they all go to bang and die and the place was stuffed with all sorts of birds feasting on the dead/exhausted fish. Whitman’s Pond has a little neck that connects the herring run to the main pond and it was like a runway for waterfowl. They just kept landing and taking off - all sorts of strange birds too. There was some prehistoric looking thing perched on a branch near the road that looked like a kookaburra or something. Huge beak relative to its body. Maybe a juvenile heron or something?

Have also been seeing lots of foxes around lately. I used to see a few a year but have seen 3 just this weekend.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Nice!

Saw one of the eagles and a GB Heron at Assawompsett yesterday. And a pile of flycatchers. And a goose family that needs to be stepped on (I hate those things) and the swans. It was avian heaven. LOL

 

[Billsail]

There was some prehistoric looking thing perched on a branch near the road that looked like a kookaburra or something. Huge beak relative to its body. Maybe a juvenile heron or something?

Kingfisher? or

 

[not new guy]

It wasn’t colorful, but it was fairly big/long. I think it must have been a juvenile heron of some kind.

 

[smokey-seven]

t wasn’t colorful, but it was fairly big/long.

Check out this link. There are other possibilities there as well.

Green Heron Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

From a distance, the Green Heron is a dark, stocky bird hunched on slender yellow legs at the water’s edge, often hidden behind a tangle of leaves. Seen up close, it is a striking bird with a velvet-green back, rich chestnut body, and a dark cap often raised into a short crest. These small...

www.allaboutbirds.org

 

[bob king]

I was kayaking on the North River and saw this brood.

 

[bob king]

I was kayaking with the wife yesterday, lots of shore birds and raptors.

 

[pupchow]

Came upon a baby porcupine (PORCUPETTE) crossing the road during my ride home today. Looked like a fast moving turtle, at first glance.

 

[pupchow]

Whippoorwill on our roof this evening.

 

[smokey-seven]

The Eastern Kingbirds are back nesting.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Marther-Farker geese and their stupid-ass babies!!!!! Gosh. I take the boat out yesterday and a half hour later my wife is texting that 20 of them are up on the lawn crapping all over. LOL

Goslings seem late this year. Not anywhere near full-grown. I recall walking thru the Public Gardens years ago in May/June and by Flag Day the baby ducks would be ready to head out. Not so with these geese. Still pretty small and downy. And crappy.


Oh, I did see 2 otters while fishing though. They were a bit away (60-yards?) and I assumed they were big-ass snapping turtle heads poking up. Until one started sneezing. LOL. They disappeared before I got a pic. Snapped a poor pic of the Blue Heron, but I see him all the time.

 

[bob king]

This mourning I looked out the window and saw this snapper in the back yard looking for a good place to lay her eggs, I haven't seen these in the yard for a few years. She has decided my wife's flowers was a nice spot.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Heyyyyy, nice snapper.

 

[50wt]

lakeville, just after tamarac park. Pulled it off the street and put it back in the water.

 

[Sparkey]

 

[50wt]

Is the bear and gopher in Mass ? Ive only seen one bear and that was during the day, in a field , near Conway NH.

 

[Sparkey]

The bear is in Mass have had about 5-6 in person sightings of them in my yard and a bunch of pics on trail cameras close by

 

[Dennis in MA]

5 heron flying over Assawompset fishing. One snagged a fish right in front of us.

 

[smokey-seven]

She has decided my wife's flowers was a nice spot.

Next year, if you want to entice her to a specific spot, insure the sun will light the new place the same and turn over some soil. They love the smell of fresh soil and it makes the digging easier. The trick is that they watch the sun very closely and want that angle on the nest.
75-90 days, watch for the little ones.

The Mating Season and Reproduction of the Snapping Turtle

Common snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) are large, freshwater turtles native to North America. Snapping turtles can normally be found at the bottoms of muddy ponds, rivers, marshes, lakes or any permanent freshwater habitat with ample aquatic vegetation. Although these large turtles are...

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