A very sad sight... I have a video of a chipmunk running back and forth from this exact point of the road, collecting nesting material by the maple tree then running across the road and jumping over curb exactly here to run under the bushes where I guess her nest is. Its probably that same chipmunk that got hit/squashed by a car :(
(A lot of the red surrounding it is mulberry, not gore)
I watched this happen - a house sparrow seemed to be chasing this blue jay. It made a few squaks, then I heard the THUD and saw it fall. The house sparrow landed next to it, realized it was dead, and flew away.
Hit the window of the Amherst College Science center that faces the east side, at the "greenway". When I first visited this building 2 weeks ago I had guessed that a beautiful green space + lots of windows would = reflections that cause birds to hit the windows. Sadly that assumption is probably right.
I’ve not seen turtles hit here before, and I’m hoping I won’t see any more.
I’ve been seeing so many of these getting hit by cars lately… very sad
Hit by car, dead on shoulder of route 5 near Holyoke/easthampton border
Deceased. On Point Shirley Beach in Winthrop, MA
Seccond dead woodpecker found this week, approximately 150 meters away from the first.
Maybe just a coincidence? I haven't seen any other dead birds on the grounds other than these though
(last two photos are of the original position it was found in, turned it over to get better photos for identification)
? Goose or bird scat outside quadrat 10
A particularly placid Eastern Cottontail spotted on the green outside Williams Hall, Boston College.
Identified as Mute Swan by mouth color pattern of the right individual