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Posts by category
- Category: Audio Clips
- Category: Beach Cleanup
- Struggles to Clean Relentless Waves of Plastic From Fishers Island’s Beaches
- Become a 2022 FINY Shoreline Superstar
- Filmmaker Creates Video Highlighting Marine Debris Cleanup Along Fishers Island Shores
- Startling Statistic: Four Tons of Marine Debris Collected on FI Shores in 2019
- Constant Battle Marine Debris
- Earthday EVERYday
- Category: Conservancy News
- Category: Education
- Category: Events
- A Gift to the Island- Aldo Benches from FI Students
- Earth Day 2025 Recap
- A Strong Start to Shorebird Season
- Bug Night with Dr. Adam Mitchell
- Bug Night with Dr. Adam Mitchell
- A Day of Nature- August 12
- Sunset on the Beach 2023
- 2023 Spring Migratory Bird Count
- Nature Days August 7
- 2021 Spring Migratory Bird Count
- Sunset on the Beach 2022
- Join Us for the Fall 2020 Migratory Bird Count
- Calling All Birders to Fall Migration Bird Count!
- 2019 Spring Migration Bird Count May 19
- Hail to Healthy Seagrass Meadows!
- Spring Migration Bird Count May 6
- Fall 2017 Bird Migration Survey
- Fishers Island Conservancy 2017 Nature Days
- Category: Current Events
- 2025 Island Sentinels
- 2025 in Review- Inviting Your Support
- What to Do if You Find a Stranded Animal
- Update on Phragmites Work and New Wetlands Regulations
- SPOTTED in New London!
- 2025 Fall Migratory Bird Count Results
- Fall 2025 Migratory Bird Count
- FIRST Summer Highlights 2025
- Shorebirds Take Flight- The 2025 Season Wrap-Up
- Buzz Be Gone- Final Spray of the Season
- Silver Eel–Race Point Coastal Trail Opens with Dedication to Janet Harvey
- August Shorebird Update
- An Evening to Remember: Recap of Sunset on the Beach 2025
- Meet the Hickory Horned Devil
- Nature Day Story Walk
- Nature Day 2025
- Panel Discussion
- Insect Catching and ID with Expert Entomologists
- Moth Night Into The Lights at the Parade Grounds
- A Talk with Doug Tallamy
- Wildlife in Trouble? We’re Here to Help
- Buzzing About Bees with FIWMD
- June 2025 Bird Count Results
- Feral Cats of Fishers Island – 2025 Strategies
- Sunset on the Beach 2025
- Our Little Visitors Are Here
- 2025 Spring Migratory Bird Count Results
- 2025 Spring Migratory Bird Count
- Shorebird Pre-Fencing Day – 04/09
- 2024 Fall Migratory Bird Count Results
- It’s All About The Science
- Fall 2024 Migratory Bird Count
- 2024 Island Sentinels
- The FIRST Pilot Program
- Sunset on the Beach 2024
- 2024 Spring Migratory Bird Count Results
- 2024 Spring Migratory Bird Count
- 2023 in Review- Inviting Your Support
- Honoring Ellie Kelly: A Tribute to a Conservation Champion
- Fall 2023 Migratory Bird Count Results
- Fall 2023 Migratory Bird Count
- Category: Feature
- Shorebird Season Winds Down, But Not Over
- Must-Read Article: Doug Tallamy on the Four Things Every Garden Should Do
- Must-Read Article: Alarming Trends in Bird Populations
- Identifying Shorebird Eggs: Terns, Plovers, and Killdeer
- Sentinel Spotlight: 2024 Horseshoe Crab Tagging
- Reviving Battery Marcy
- How to Control Invasive Mugwort!
- Category: FI Moths
- Cecropia Moth
- Yellow-shouldered slug
- Wavy-lined heterocampa
- The Beggar
- Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
- Skiff moth
- Primrose Moth
- Small-eyed sphinx
- Cecropia moth caterpillar
- Rose hooktip
- Hag Moth and Caterpillar
- Green Leuconycta
- Greater Grapevine Looper
- Forest Tent Caterpillar and Moth
- Alianthus webworm
- Green Marvel
- Azalea Sphinx
- Pandorus Sphinx
- Luna Moth
- Io moth
- American Dagger Moth
- Angulose Prominent Moth
- Banded Tussock Moth Caterpillar
- Banded Tussock Moth
- Black-dotted Ruddy
- Black Zale
- Blue Dasher
- Common Spring Moth
- Curve-toothed Geometer
- Monarch Butterfly Caterpillar and Aphids
- Delicate Cycnia
- Eastern Tent Caterpillar
- Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth Nest
- Eyed Paectes
- Giant Leopard Moth
- Grapeleaf Skeletonizer
- Gray-edged Hypena
- Category: Field Notes
- Orange Sulphur Butterflies
- Painted Lady Butterfly Observed
- Sanctuary of Sands Migration Station
- Common Buckeye Butterfly
- Monarch on Thorny Thistle
- Best Summer Stewardship for Least Tern Shorebirds
- Noted Increase in Shorebirds
- Thors Brothers & IPP
- Least Terns Flying on Upswing
- A Pocketful of Plovers
- Alone No More!
- Protecting Killdeer Eggs
- Birth Announcement
- Coast is Clear
- Least Tern
- Blue Jay Migration!
- Nesting, Nesting…123!
- Veery Lovely
- Let’s Welcome the Least Terns
- Breathing Life Back into Big Stony
- Got MILKweed for Monarchs?
- “The Least Terns are Coming! The Least Terns are Coming!”
- Island Sentinels
- Got MILKweed?
- Healthy Seagrass Meadows
- Love these Warriors: The Weed Team!
- Move Over For This Endangered Plover!
- Ribbon & Balloon Debris-Tying in with Island Stewardship
- Trends: When Rare Becomes Common
- Adopt-A-Beach
- Annual Audubon Bird Count
- Category: Field Photos
- Category: From the Field
- Category: grants
- Category: grasslands restoration
- Category: Habitat
- Category: Featured Habitat
- Category: Insects
- Category: Invasive Plants
- Category: News
- A Walk with Doug Tallamy
- 2024 Marine Debris Report
- Nature Day: August 3rd, 2024
- 2023 Marine Debris Report
- 2023 Island Sentinels
- 2022 Marine Debris Report
- President’s Message 2022
- Ellen H. Kelly and Carol Giles Honored at Sunset on the Beach
- FIConservancy Helps FIFerry District With Native Grasses on New Berm
- Maddie Hatfield Shines at Science Competition with Local Sponge Species
- 2022 Spring Migratory Bird Count Surpasses Average Count For Fishers Island
- 2022 Spring Bird Count
- 2021 Marine Debris Report
- President’s Message 2021
- Shoreline Superstars Embrace Adopt-A-Beach Competition
- Destructive Spotted Lanternfly An Increasing Threat
- Fall 2021 Migratory Bird Count Results
- Become a First Responder with Mystic Aquarium’s Animal Rescue Program
- Fall 2021 Migratory Bird Count
- FIConservancy Photo Contest 2021
- View Fishers Island Moths With An Expert
- States Push Back Against Releasing Balloons
- Carpenter Bees Are Important Native Pollinators
- Community Photo Contest 2021
- Marine Debris Cleanup: Adopt a Beach
- Marine Debris Repurposed!
- Summer Internship Opportunity
- Fishers Island’s Coyotes Are Here to Stay
- FI School Seniors are Finalists in 2021 Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair
- A Rite of Spring Returns: Planned Burning on the Parade Grounds
- A Cautionary Tale For Fishers Island Seagrass: Florida’s Seagrass Disaster
- Tread Lightly: It’s Mating Season
- Birds of Prey at Risk from Rodent Poison
- Robins Are Unwitting Enablers of Wildly Invasive Chinese Privet Shrub
- 2020 Marine Debris Report
- Nationwide Conservation Project Launched by Fishers Island Consultant Doug Tallamy
- Buoy Tree: Community Collaboration At Its Best
- Encountering a Coyote: What to Do
- Coyotes Have Made a Home on Fishers Island
- New Fluorometer Meter Boosts Oceanography Studies at Fishers Island School
- 2020 Island Sentinels
- Pest and Pest Control Wrapped in One Package
- Four New Options Presented to Recoup Lost Revenue from “Sunset” Cancellation
- Fishers Island Osprey Nests Not Immune from Plastic Pollution Spanning the Globe
- Thank you!
- New Picnic Tables At Parade Grounds
- Ancient Blue Bloods Provide Critical Link to the Safety of Future Coronavirus Vaccine
- Spring 2020 Migratory Bird Count
- Two Tons of Marine Debris Littered FI Coastline in 2019
- Native or Non-Native Praying Mantis? All Three Species Live on Fishers Island
- FIConservancy Postpones Sunset on the Beach until 2021
- Parade Grounds Paths Widened to Six Feet
- Exciting News: Breeding American Woodcocks on FI
- Time is Right to Attack Aggressively Invasive Mustard Garlic
- The Truth About Swans
- Injured Adult Harp Seal Uses the Race for Rest & Recuperation
- FIConservancy Partners with FIDCO in East End Habitat Restoration Project
- Scientists Say “Climate Chaos” is Main Reason for Decline in Bumblebee Population
- Study Finds That Migratory Birds Cling to Diminishing Native Food Supply
- Toxic Chemicals Dredged from Thames River Might Be Dumped Off Northeast Coast of FI
- Mystic Aquarium Offers Animal Rescue Program at FI Community Center
- A New and Significant Threat to Forests Observed on Fishers: Asian Jumping Worm
- A Fond Farewell to FIConservancy Naturalist Justine Kibbe
- Study Reveals Staggering Loss of 2.9 Billion Birds Since 1970
- 2019 Fall Migratory Bird Count
- As Requested: Fishers Island Seed Mix
- Two Filtered Water Filling Stations Installed on Fishers Island
- Lucky Monarch Butterflies!
- FIConservancy Receives Unexpected Donation in Memory of John Thatcher, Jr.
- Coyote Peach Buffet
- Conservation on Parade 2019
- Marine Debris Update Aug. 2019
- Fishers Island First to be Tapped for MPA Watch Pilot Program
- “Boiling” Water in Hay Harbor
- What Happened to the Ospreys?
- Post-Sentinel Success!
- 2019 Sunset on the Beach
- A Different Kind of Shark
- 2019 Island Sentinels
- Alexa Rosenberg Observes American Oystercatchers
- Wilson Thors Front Row to a Chrysalis
- Conservation on Parade Aug. 3
- July 20 Parade Ground Tours & Property Walk-Throughs
- Coyote Territory
- “Sunset on the Beach” July 20
- The Clearing Continues
- Standing Up to Phragmites
- Record Number of Birds Sighted in 2019 Spring Migration Bird Count: 56 Species
- Unusual Visitor!
- Successful 2019 Controlled Burn
- Tent Caterpillars
- Island Beauty by Justine Kibbe
- Beaver Believers
- The Burn: How It’s Done
- Piping Plovers Return to Fishers Island
- Capsized Vessel Finally Removed from Mouth of Hay Harbor
- Nature Conservancy Publishes Report on Fishers Island Eelgrass & Boating Activity
- Diesel Fuel Reaches FI Shore
- New Maintenance Shed
- Ecologists Have this Simple Request to Homeowners — Plant Native
- Fall 2018 Bird Migration Survey Results
- Ospreys in Southold Town
- 2018 Sunset on the Beach a Huge Success!
- West End Cecropia Moth Sighting
- 2018 Osprey Fledgling Count
- 2018 Spring Migratory Bird Count Nets Record Number of Birds!
- Hunting for Evidence of Ancient Hurricanes in Fishers Island Ponds
- President’s Message: 2018
- Plum Island: For the Birds
- 45 Minutes, Yet a World Away
- The Tick Threat Is Serious This Year
- Category: Photo Gallery
- Category: President's Message
- Category: Sentinels
- Alexa Rosenberg Goldfinches on FI
- Betsy Conger: 2019 Conservation on Parade
- Betsy Conger’s Sewanee Report
- 2019 Island Sentinels
- Images from Marc Rosenberg
- Very First Sentinel
- 2018 Island Sentinels
- Island Sentinels at “Conservancy on Parade”
- Wildlife Monitoring and Connecting with the Natural Environment
- 2015-16 Sentinels
- 2014 Sentinels
- Meet the Island Sentinels!
- Category: Stewardship
- Category: Video
- Category: Video Snippets
Portfolio Items
- Marine Debris November 2025
- Marine Debris October 2025
- Marine Debris September 2025
- Marine Debris August 2025
- Marine Debris July 2025
- Marine Debris June 2025
- Arthropods
- Marine Debris May 2025
- Marine Debris April 2025
- Marine Debris March 2025
- Marine Debris February 2025
- Marine Debris January 2025
- Marine Debris December 2024
- Marine Debris November 2024
- Marine Debris October 2024
- Marine Debris September 2024
- Marine Debris August 2024
- Marine Debris July 2024
- Marine Debris June 2024
- Marine Debris May 2024
- Marine Debris April 2024
- Marine Debris March 2024
- Marine Debris February 2024
- Marine Debris January 2024
- Marine Debris December 2023
- Mammals of Fishers Island
- Marine Debris November 2023: Big Stony
- Marine Debris November 2023
- Marine Debris October 2023
- Marine Debris September 2023
- Marine Debris August 2023
- Marine Debris July 2023
- Marine Debris June 2023
- Marine Debris May 2023
- Marine Debris April 2023
- Marine Debris March 2023
- Marine Debris February 2023
- Marine Debris January 2023
- Marine Debris December 2022
- Marine Debris November 2022
- Marine Debris October 2022
- Marine Debris August 2022
- Marine Debris July 2022
- Marine Debris June 2022
- Marine Debris April 2022
- Marine Debris March 2022
- Marine Debris February 2022
- Marine Debris January 2022
- Marine Debris June 2021
- Marine Debris May 2021
- Marine Debris March 2021
- Marine Debris February 2021
- Marine Debris January 2021
- Marine Debris December 2020
- Marine Debris November 2020
- Marine Debris October 2020
- Marine Debris September 2020
- Marine Debris August 2020
- Marine Debris July 2020
- Marine Debris June 2020
- Marine Debris May 2020
- Marine Debris April 2020
- Marine Debris March 2020
- Marine Debris February 2020
- Marine Debris January 2020
- Marine Debris December 2019
- Marine Debris November 2019
- Marine Debris October 2019
- Marine Debris September 2019
- Marine Debris August 2019
- Marine Debris July 2019
- Marine Debris June 2019
- Marine Debris May 2019
- Beach Debris April 2019
- Beach Debris March 2019
- Beach Debris February 2019
- Beach Debris January 2019
- Beach Debris December 2018
- Beach Debris June-July 2018
- Kristen's Chrysalis
- Birds of Fishers Island
- Shorebirds
- Flowering Native Plants
- Flowering Non-Native Plants
- John Thatcher Native Garden Tour
- Sanctuary of Sands for the Piping Plover
- Moths Photo Gallery