On a sparkling Saturday in late September, a Save the Bay boat gave eager passengers rides up the Seekonk River for the second year running. Suzanne Paton of US Fish and Wildlife pointed out some of the river’s many fish and birds, including an osprey, a bald eagle, great blue herons, and a kingfisher. As if on cue, the fish were surfacing and gulls and cormorants were going after them.
Jointly sponsored by the Blackstone Parks conservancy, Save the Bay, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the event drew about 80 people, many of them children. It was a chance to see the river and bordering woodlands from a vantage point normally glimpsed only by rowers.
