Io moth
Common Name: Io moth Scientific Name: Automeris io Season: Usually two generations in the Northeast. Food: Feeds on many different trees, shrubs, legumes, and grasses (this one was feeding on black locust). […]
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Weed Team 2017
On June 3, 2017, three University of Delaware (UD) students arrived on Fishers Island with a few bags of food, backpacks, and a handful of garden shears. Employed by […]
Wildlife Monitoring and Connecting with the Natural Environment
My name is Erik Blomquist, and I have been fortunate enough to call Fishers Island a second home my entire life. Since I was little, I have come to the […]
Fishers Island Conservancy 2017 Nature Days
Wednesday, August 9 through Sunday, August 13
Join us for a week of conservation and preservation activities including music, tours, movie screenings, round table discussions, paint & sip, field lessons with experts and much more!
The Real Summer on Parade
Upon Firewheel petals within a Garden’s Demonstrate
The Tick Threat Is Serious This Year
By Melinda Wenner Moyer – a science writer based in Cold Spring, New York, and is Slate’s parenting advice columnist. The ticks have arrived. So many, so tiny, so hungry. […]
Caution: Wet Paint
Up east at Oyster Pond, ranging a bit from my neck of the woods on Silver Eel Cove, I met this Green Heron(plumage of the species is actually more slate blue) while on my bicycle.
Mother’s Day Bluebird
A female Eastern Bluebird feeds (this time looks like a spider for dinner) her brood on Fishers Island. Happy news! Bluebirds documented throughout winter 2017, it appears some have decided to call here “home”.
Move Over For The Piping Plover
Treasured nest and eggs found along Conservancy’s Sanctuary of Sands, parallel Elizabeth Field Runway. Please tread respectfully, leash all dogs, and take pride in our Island’s unique environment and wildlife.
Father Bluebird’s Mother’s Day Gift
Male Eastern Bluebird serves up Mother’s Day dinner for mate and brood here in a peaceful meadow, eastern Fishers Island.