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Dawn
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Posted: July 08 2006 at 5:54am | IP Logged Quote Dawn
A few things recently have inspired a little nature rabbit trail about the concept of urban wildlife:

*Middle son is fascinated with raptors and was incredulous to learn that hawks roost in the city.

*Dh mentioned that a co-worker maintains a birdfeeder at their office in downtown Boston. And they get songbirds!

* My cousin just signed on with The Charles River Conservancy to help with the design and creation of a skateboard park in Boston. The boys are hoping to follow the progress and "interview" my cousin now and then.

*We read a letter in The Globe from a young man who, in the crowds after a Red Sox game, marveled at a butterfly but despaired that no one else seemed to notice or care.

All this inspired speculation about whether or not there could be much "nature" in the city. So we started an investigation and yesterday we took pictures all around a busy parking lot and next week dh will take the camera into Boston for the day to find nature in the city. Naturally, I wrote a post about this at my blog.

I thought I would mention it here and see if anyone else had ideas or experiences to share for learning about what lives and grows in the city. I listed some resources at my blog in case you are interested in following a similar trail.

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 3:47pm | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
One of my favorite books, The Urban Naturalist, is a good solid resource for city dwellers.

I grew up in downtown Boston, and if there were any wildlife to be found, we found it--birds, bats, grasshoppers, ducks, salamanders... I'm heading to Boston with the kids in a few weeks, and we will inspect some of my old haunts. Fun trail!

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 6:59pm | IP Logged Quote Leonie

When we lived in Adelaide ( just over a year ago) there was an article about the population of owls in the csity. Apparently there were a large number of owls who nested in the trees in the city parks.

And also rats..

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Posted: July 10 2006 at 7:45pm | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
Leonie wrote:


And also rats..

Marsupial rats? Or are you lucky enough to have lovely European Rats over there?

When we met Luke at the airport, I was parked briefly near the big airport directory sign, far from the terminals...baby rats came swarming out of the shrubs and climbed into the rubbish bin next to my car. It was almost cute.

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Posted: July 11 2006 at 3:42pm | IP Logged Quote ~Rachel~
I did a post the other day on both of my blogs about urban nature study :)
All we did was take a walk around the town

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 1:44am | IP Logged Quote Leonie
MacBeth wrote:
Marsupial rats? Or are you lucky enough to have lovely European Rats over there?


Sadly - European Rats - brought over with the convict ships.

I would have died seeing those mice at the airport - I don't like rodents!


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