Field Notes

Wonderful news for our Island! Marked increase in observations of least terns this summer. Thank you to the Nature Conservancy Long Island for new informative signage near least tern breeding …

This Evening, Hay Harbor. Grateful on Fishers Island: Thank you Fishers Island Conservancy! The Island Sentinel Program, in its 6th year. Helping me to share Local. Traditional. Knowledge. with generations to …

Parade Grounds. Help Fishers Island Help Monarch butterflies To help themselves… Keep ‘em coming back for more! Field Note, From the Field by Justine Kibbe, July 6, 2018

Low tide: Hungry Point, Fishers Island. Looking forward to working on the Fishers Island Seagrass Management Coalition with the Nature Conservancy Long Island & Henry L. Ferguson Museum. Stewardship is …

Helping Fishers Island Conservancy eradicate plant invasives and restore Critical Wildlife Habitat… Erick Jones, Nickia Gibson and Ben Sammarco from the University of Delaware. “The core invasive species we’re encountering …

Great news! I spied this Piping plover on Chocomount beach mid-week. Note the single black neck- band (breeding plumage) and sand colored camouflage. I was happy to see it feeding …

Marine debris is very apparent clogged within harbors, coves, and washed ashore on all beaches of Fishers Island. While most items of trash are more obvious, I include here the …

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 …

I have been thinking a lot about Stewardship and just what principles it takes to effectively oversee and protect the Island we all cherish and value-enough to “preserve, enrich, and …

With Twelve Days of Christmas nearing and “a partridge in a pear tree” somewhere….  I remind myself to help promote the 114th  Annual Christmas Bird Count supported here on Island …