From the National Mall NPS:
“A North American river otter is a rare sight around the National Mall. Once eliminated from the area, the species is on the road to recovery. Though they are cute & playful, you otter remember that they are wild animals & never get too close.” (more…)
Thanks to Jessica for sending a nice shot of Gladys, above, who’s really been getting around Columbia Heights lately.
And thanks to Cornelius for sending (more…)
Photo by Michele Banks
Thanks to Michele for sending this “Big ass hawk at Rose Park in Georgetown.”
If you spot a hawk or any interesting wildlife and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted it to [email protected]. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.
Thanks to Sarah for sending from Wakefield: “I saw this fox with an unidentified animal in its mouth this morning at Appleton NW and 36th.”
If you spot a hawk or any interesting wildlife and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted it to [email protected]. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.
Send your particularly good cicada photos to [email protected] thanks!
Thanks to Joyce for sending from Spring Valley. (more…)
Thanks to Jason for sending from Adams Morgan.
If you spot a hawk or any interesting wildlife and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted it to [email protected]. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.
Thanks to Eddie for sending:
“This hawk surprised me near the Thompson Boat Center / Washington City Canal Outlet near Georgetown”
If you spot a hawk or any interesting wildlife and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted it to [email protected]. Thanks! Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.
“Dear PoPville,
Snake skin on 10th St. NW between M and N. What is happening!?!”
Not sure if related but the month of May is definitely the start of snakes falling out of trees season:
From an incident back in 2013
Also disconcerting: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
My sister in nearby Maryland just sent me a video clip from her front door camera…2:37am!!!!
She was TERRIFIED!
We can’t figure out what animal, beast, monster or possessed being this is???
Perhaps the OP community might be able to identify?
Is it mating? Is it an attack? Is it just playing around?
NOT a fun sound to hear during REM sleep…”
Photo by Diane Krauthamer
“Dear PoPville,
I saw something weird in the sky and wanted to see if anyone else in the columbia heights may have spotted it. Around 10:45pm on 4/28 i saw an object flying pretty low to the ground, coming from the children’s national hospital area and flying West across the sky. It was mostly dark but had red lights on either side that were really spread far apart, almost like a plane’s wings, but i couldn’t see anything in the middle and there weren’t lights in the middle. The way it was traveling, the lights were in the front and back not side to side like for a plane.
It was also flying too close to the ground to be a plane, it almost looked like it was skimming over the treetops, so i thought it was a helicopter but the two lights were so far apart and it was shaped so different than a helicopter. (more…)