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I haven't seen a thread dedicated to animals or birds spotted in urban contexts in Boston and surrounding areas (mods please delete/move if there is such a thread). I always like watching the cormorants in the Fort Point Channel so I thought I would start a thread since we do have a fair number of critters in our city.

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I've posted him here before but caught a snowy owl chilling at Castle Island last December. Was an exciting spot as we had previously done a dune hike in Ipswich to look for them and didn't see any, and then here we were in Southie of all places and he's right there for all to see.
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The Porter Square pigeon flock is consistently hilarious to me behavior-wise. Passed through Porter on a rainy day recently and most of them had clustered on these rock formations so as to avoid the puddles.

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Not strictly wildlife, but I just recently learned of the Fulmore Park chickens in Cambridgeport from this thread on reddit. Decided to check out the park myself and ran into two of the chickens! There appears to be a coop under the back porch of the triple decker on Sidney St that abuts the park (you can see the grating in the last photo).

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