Category Archives: animals

This pup looks ready to kick off summer as he/she cruises through Wellesley Square. Thanks to KM for passing along.

UPDATE (6//13): Wellesley Police have found the dog and returned Holly to her owners. Holly, a small, three-year-old Sheltie dog was reported missing Sunday evening at Centennial Park.  She is sable and black in color and resembles a Collie.  She was last spotted near the corner of Oakland Street and Brookside Road. If you see [...]

Maybe the severe weather spooked snapping turtles out of the water the past 2 days, but spotted this snapper below laying eggs  in our backyard around 7pm Wednesday night and this huge one above outside the Wellesley College track at around 6:30AM Thursday. RELATED: Turtle-mania grips Wellesley Turtle photo contest

For the 2nd year in a row, Lucy is the most popular dog name in Wellesley, according to the town’s clerk office. The top 10: 1. Lucy  (37 dogs) 2. Lily (33) 3. Bailey  (32) (Perhaps an unintentional nod to the popular old Bailey’s ice cream shop in Wellesley Square) 4. Molly (32) 5. Teddy  [...]

Wellesley gets cute, as seen across assorted storefronts celebrating spring and readying for Easter: OK, now back to mucking around in the dark underbelly of our town…   RELATED: Cute Overload Your Ad Here

UPDATE:  A few readers — Julie K, Peter D, Bethany H– say it’s an Eastern Screech Owl, according to an Audubon book and sources such as this. And we also heard from Stacy Miller at Audubon’s Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary in Natick who says: “It’s an Eastern Screech Owl in the red phase. They are also [...]

Winter moths (operophtera brumata) are back in Wellesley and  ready to do some mating. The town does some spraying of town trees but obviously there are more moths than sprayers. The males are the ones you’ll see clustering around your lights and doorways, the females are wingless and hang out near the base of trees [...]

By Peter Rovick – Wellesley Conservation Council Local children and parents enjoyed a “show & tell” presentation last night of exotic animals & reptiles presented by Richard Roth of The Creature Teachers (shown above). At this program hosted by the Wellesley Conservation Council, Rick educated & engaged the audience with live animals and reptiles, including [...]

Thanks to an Eagle Scout project, bats now have a new place to hang out at the Guernsey Path and Sanctuary in Wellesley near Winding River Rd. Though you probably won’t find any of the critters around now if you’re looking for a little Halloween fix. The 3-chamber bat house, which was completed on Aug. [...]