Conservancy OutLook Listen & Learn
These September afternoons have been stellar. Cloudless sky has me lost in blue, rays of light glint off a spinnaker rippling in gusts at Race Point then bounce back curling […]
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Recollections
Summer, I glanced and saw you at five past Noontide. Summer, I heard you whiz by on wings of Dragonfly Summer, your scent wafted by both sweet and bitter Summer? […]
2014 Sentinels
L to R: Conner Wakeman, Gardner Thors, Justine Kibbe, Olivia Backhaus, Aaron Kane (not pictured Alan Eastman)
The Croaks On Me
I have been privileged to live in several different cottages here on Island both during winter and summer months. It’s a whole new learning of different habitat for local wildlife […]
Make Way For Ducklings Dive
Common Eider teach their ducklings diving technique along healthy eelgrass meadows surrounding the northeast end of Fishers Island.
Cormorant Poop & Its Scoop
There it was, rising like Mount Kilimanjaro up out of a tiny cove Sound side. Without missing a beat I dubbed the site “Mount Kilimanguano”. This poop-capped rock is […]
Trends: When Rare Becomes Common
Back in June 1975, our premier Island Naturalist Ed Horning published a small pamphlet: Fishers Island Birds. Its intention was to document the distribution and occurrence of bird species between […]
All Ears
Lately, I have been listening very intently to things that go “thump in the night”. This eerie intermittent growling…. It’s not my stomach, because I have had a midnight snack. […]
F(e)ather’s Day
For this Barn Swallow Dad… Helped diligently feed his brood, then Gracefully flew off to The Golf Course!
Wearing Time
The scent of a new born blossom, The skin of a well worn tree, Smooth stones ever becoming Sand, Oh, Blue Sky! The eons have been good to you.