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- 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
- A Weekend with Dr. Douglas Tallamy
- Join the Mosquito Bucket Challenge
- Meet the 2025 FIRST Team
- Protecting Our Feathered Friends
- President’s Message: 2013
- River Otter Survey Report
- New Conservancy Grants Fund Otter Research, Naturalist Work, Student Program and Native Trees
- President’s Message: 2012
- A Battle Won, in the War Against Invasive Plants
- Conservancy Grant Supports Osprey Cam
- Invasive Plants Along Rec Path
- Category: Education
- FIConservancy Awards Grant to FI School Student and Island Resident Nicolas Hall
- Young Environmental Enthusiast Produces Video
- River Otter: Call it a “Day-bed”
- Watch Out for Oleander Aphids!
- Exciting Day at Parade Grounds!
- We’re Underwater at Hay Harbor!
- Nature Days 2018: “Conservation on Parade”
- 2017 Island Sentinels
- Island Sentinels: Sample Analysis
- 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
- Orienteering Competition
- A Day of Nature- August 12
- The Ghost Net: An Environmental Musical of the Sea
- Sunset on the Beach 2023
- 2023 Spring Migratory Bird Count
- Benefit to Preserve Plum Island
- 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!
- Sunset on the Beach 2018
- Native Plant Sale May 19-20!
- Spring Migration Bird Count May 6
- Fall 2017 Bird Migration Survey
- Fishers Island Conservancy 2017 Nature Days
- Category: Current Events
- 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
- What to Do if You Find a Stranded Animal
- Sunset on the Beach 2025
- Our Little Visitors Are Here
- 2025 Spring Migratory Bird Count Results
- 2025 Spring Migratory Bird Count
- Right Place Right Plant: Native Plants and Practical Uses
- 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
- Dive into the Connecticut River: An Evening with Kari Kastango
- Illustrated Talk with Beyond Plastics- August 18th
- Sunset on the Beach 2024
- 2024 Spring Migratory Bird Count Results
- 2024 Spring Migratory Bird Count
- In Gardens We Trust – A Fishers Island Native Plant Chat
- 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
- Illustrated Talk with Beyond Plastics- October 8th
- 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
- Recoup for Cooper’s Hawk
- Best Summer Stewardship for Least Tern Shorebirds
- Fountain of Youth
- Eider Duck Reunion Summer 2019
- Noted Increase in Shorebirds
- Ready to Take the Plunge
- Early Morning Riser
- Intelligent Life on Earth
- Lady in Waiting
- Prepare for Takeoff*
- Thors Brothers & IPP
- Silent Swimmer
- Spearfishing in Silver Eel Cove
- Whoo’s Looking for Dinner?
- Dowitcher Days of Summer
- A Feather in Your Cap?
- “Are You My Mother?”
- Upon This Rockweed
- Pearls of Wisdom*
- Please Pay Landing Fee
- Least Terns Flying on Upswing
- Stewardship: You’re So Special
- Making Way for Eider Ducklings
- Hanging Out to Dry
- A Pocketful of Plovers
- Indigo Blue
- Crow’s Thievery
- At a Snail’s Pace
- Alone No More!
- Protecting Killdeer Eggs
- Birth Announcement
- Coast is Clear
- Drink Your Tea*
- Birdseye Menu
- Cool Breeze
- Cedar Waxwing
- Red-bellied Woodpecker*
- Chipping Sparrow
- Tea Time with Eastern Towhee
- Today is “For the Birds”
- Eider Down-Time
- Common Yellow Throat
- Tails You Win
- On a Clear Day
- The Ubiquitous Yellow Warbler
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- Blue Jay Migration!
- Turning Up
- Sweet Air of Spring…
- No Squawkin’
- Splish Splash
- Nesting, Nesting…123!
- Getting Your Feet Wet
- Island Time
- Veery Lovely
- Bein’ Green
- Mink Slink or Swim
- Ospreys West Bound
- Greater Yellow Legs
- In Their Element*
- Sprung…
- Seaweeds Awash
- Morning’s Watch
- Caterpillars of the Community
- Join the Chorus
- Turtle Reunion
- Housing Renovation
- Pond Perfect Day
- American Oystercatchers Return
- Big Stony Residents Are Back
- Snapping Snapshot
- Oystercatcher Catch-up
- The Beat Goes On*
- Kestral’s Keep
- Wise One West*
- Duck Pond’s Paint by Number
- Crown Royal
- Two’s Company
- Healthy Outlook for Healthy Habitat
- Let’s Welcome the Least Terns
- Oystercatchers Return!
- First Peep to “Pipe Up”
- From Big Stony
- Monitoring Big Stony
- Savings Account
- No Vacancy
- The Gem…
- Cliffside View
- The New “Winter Wonderland”*
- Moon in Mackerel Sky
- Color My World Happy*
- As the Raven Flies*
- Nano-Puff
- Cup of Cold Water
- Calm Before the Storm
- Morning Belly Rub
- “Movin’ on Up”
- Gull’s Morning Meal
- “Owl be seeing you…”
- Community Relations
- Scat Happens*
- Degrees of Separation*
- Sea Ducks: Tribe Mergini
- “Look Ma, No Cavities!”*
- Lunar Eclipse
- Ghosts of Seasons Past
- Once in a Blue Moon*
- Garden’s Demonstration
- Weather or Not
- Trees Company
- Not So Common
- Ringing in The New
- “SEAsoned Greetings”
- Meeting Meteors Tonight
- Kick up the dust
- Expectancy
- Eastern Bluebirds Stay West
- Fish Crow Hieroglyphics
- Dabbling & Dipping Ducks
- Awaiting Snowy Owl’s Arrival
- May thru October – 30 Minute Parking Only
- Who? Who?
- A Gusty Day
- Checking In
- Blue Jay & Acorn
- Conservation’s Amenities
- Step Lightly
- Scenic Overlook!
- The Best Seat in The House
- Breathing Life Back into Big Stony
- And so we meet again –
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Fly-bye
- Green Heron’s Address is Just Ducky!
- A Vibrant Evening
- A “Buzz” on the Line
- Butterflies 101
- Multitude of Tree Swallows
- Ahoy Skipper!
- “All the News That’s Fit to Print”
- Becoming a “Round Robin”…
- Got it Made in the Shade
- The Eyes Have It
- Keep Your Eye on the Birdie
- This Morning with Semipalmated Friends
- Got MILKweed for Monarchs?
- “The Least Terns are Coming! The Least Terns are Coming!”
- Summer’s Humming Along…
- Island Sentinels
- Got MILKweed?
- Healthy Seagrass Meadows
- Summer Sultry
- Love these Warriors: The Weed Team!
- An Island’s Delicate Nature
- Flicker Fledgling
- Black-bellied plover standing “Sentinel”
- They’re back…
- Move Over For This Endangered Plover!
- Scarlet Tanager & Wooded Habitat
- Ribbon & Balloon Debris-Tying in with Island Stewardship
- Raptor Totem
- True Blue Grosbeak!
- My Friend Flicker
- Winter’s Swan Song
- Buteo Beauty
- As a Coyote Stays on Track
- Pedaling into Perigee*
- Under the Locust Tree*
- Ethereal Egret
- Something to Crow About!
- Five past Noontide
- The Real Summer on Parade
- Caution: Wet Paint
- Once Upon A Rock: This Spring Once Again**
- When My Stewardship Comes In
- My Significant Otter & the Other Side of the Tracks
- Meeting Intuition Out In the Field
- A Little Bird Told Me
- I’ll Have a Blue Heron Christmas*
- Seeing beyond exclusive, catching the elusive
- Along Came a Spider
- Hummingbird’s Great Spirit Too
- Bear Crossing & Citizen Science
- A Welcome Messenger Of Hope
- A Welcome Messenger Of Hope
- Spotted sandpiper and sweet spots
- Spotted Sandpiper and Sweet Spots
- Everybody in East Harbor Loves Raymond!
- Slice of Life
- My Safe Arbor
- Naturalist Amazed !
- My Side of the Island
- Ode To Bird
- A Remarks Page
- One Sneaky Bird
- Just Rippling It Out There
- Listening To Dragonfly
- Silver Eel Cove: A Good Read
- Mylar Madness
- Killdeer Nest & All the Rest
- Muskrat Love
- That Moment in Mackerel Sky
- Ruddy Turnstone Reunion
- The Wobbler & Warbler
- Life Giving
- Life’s Spectrum Full
- Lesson From An Egret
- Early Morning Commute
- Piping Plovers & Critical Island Habitat
- Greetings & Salutations for Osprey
- When Our Paths Cross
- “Pull Over Plover”
- King of Gulls
- Rain Doves
- Take A Gander : Snow Geese!
- Eyed Awake
- Keeping Tally
- O Canada! Geese In Plight
- Join The Club!
- Be My Valiant Time
- The Ceremonial Preen
- My Neck Of The Woods
- This Island’s Iconic Imagery
- Marine Vessel Traffic Report
- Nature’s March Syncopated
- Something To Crow About
- Temperature Dip
- Wintering Over
- Brant, Buffle, & Buoy
- Winter Of Content
- Isle Be Home For Christmas
- Thelma Pheobe Ship To Shore
- Paths Straight & Arrow
- Downy & Hairy
- Window Seat
- Keeping Track
- Dove & Hawk
- Tailless & Fearless
- Scurry Up & Wait
- Cardinal Rules
- Clean Slate
- Snapshot: Turtle’s Baby Steps
- Arrival & Departure At Hungry Point
- Meeting Belted Kingfisher
- Conservancy OutLook Listen & Learn
- Recollections
- The Croaks On Me
- Cormorant Poop & Its Scoop
- Trends: When Rare Becomes Common
- All Ears
- F(e)ather’s Day
- Wearing Time
- Tread Lightly At Big Club Beach
- Seeking & Seeing
- Circumpolar Plover
- Greater Or Lesser?
- Who Is Counting Who?
- Bird’s Evensong
- Let It Bee Bumble
- Party’s Plover
- Dinosaur Crossing
- Sitting Amongst Reeds In May
- Of Wrack Lines,TEDtalks & Plastic
- Up,Up & Away
- Lifeguard Position Available
- Site Fidelity:Oyster Catchers & Seals
- Grassland Ecology
- They Say It’s Your Earthday!
- Spring Into Action
- Birds Do It
- Olde Blue
- Lesson From A Jetty In Jeopardy
- Dolphins & Naturalist In The Know
- Meeting Calico Scallop
- Seeing The Logic In EcoLOGICal
- O Armadillo
- Conservation Status Symbols
- Coastal Uplands
- Adopt-A-Beach
- Ghost Crab
- Welcome Mats For Oysters
- No Stone Left Unturned:
- Ethics On A Walk
- Willet Gray
- Snowy Egret’s Own Great Spirit
- Munnawtawkin & Master Naturalists
- Adapting To Winter
- Barley Field Cove & Critical Habitat
- Snowy Owl’s Great Spirit
- Winter’s Vein
- Call 1-888-LIMULUS
- Been There Swum That
- Empty Nests
- Angels on a Beach
- Annual Audubon Bird Count
- Ripple Reflect
- Thank The Giver
- Creator’s Custom Camouflage
- Saving Sea Meadows
- Make Tracks
- Lone Sea Star
- Mantis Mantra
- Atukan Akun & What Really Counts
- Autumn Transit
- Scenic Lookout For Wonders
- Sandpipers & Peeps
- Web Sight
- Aerial Acrobats on Parade
- Leatherbacks,Balloons &Jellyfish
- Forest Snags & Critical Habitat
- Sea Swallows
- Autumn’s Portal
- The Surf Scoter
- And A River Otter Runs Through It
- Hidden Treasure
- Of Cormorants & Egrets
- Nesting & Resting on Flat Hammock
- All You Can Eat Bouquet
- The Fiddler Crab
- Summer Sense
- Isabella Shored Up
- Bravo!
- Wanted:House For Wrent
- The Great Egret
- Wild Awake
- Snapshot of a Snapping Turtle
- Along Came a Spider
- The Great Gardener
- Rock of Stages
- Four & Twenty Blackbirds
- Seaweeds
- Slipper Snail Shells by the Seashore
- Voted Best Nest & Breakfast
- Take Wing
- Dear Earth,
- Do Not Disturb
- Stake Your Territory Trickster!
- A Good Read
- River Otter Survey of Fishers Island
- Rock Steady Revisited
- Spring’s Renewal
- Good Natured Beachgoers
- Naturalist’s Walkabout
- Confessions of a Naturalist
- Natural History Lessons
- Winter Stillness
- Seals in Snow
- Icy Sea Monsters & Sea Smoke
- Rock Steady ll
- Glove Story
- Beach Recovery
- Eelgrass Restoration
- Mermaid’s Purse
- Red Right Returning
- Ocean Meadows
- Perihelion
- No Swan Song Here
- Nature’s Own
- Yule Tides
- Joy to the World
- Gifting
- Weather Permitting
- Rock Steady
- Lichen Life
- Wool Socks & Woolly Bears
- Mapping & Navigating
- Red-tailed Hawk Encounter
- A Stellar Day!
- Harbor seals in the winter warmth
- Dolphins Sighted Again!
- Tracking. Migrating.
- Knotted Ribbon Wrack
- Next to Hay Harbor
- Isabella Sunrise
- Shorter Days and Shadows
- FI Brick at Napatree Point, RI
- Dolphins off Government Bell
- Whale at Isabella (no pics, sorry)
- Golden Eagle sighted at Middle Farms!!
- At Hooverness
- Dock Beach Extra Sandy
- Silver Eel Pond back to business
- Tons of Driftwood on Isabella Beach
- Beach Cactus
- New Beachscape at Hungry Point
- Chocomount Debris Field
- Race Point Road to Nowhere Now
- South Beach post-Sandy
- Hay Harbor post-Sandy
- Salt and Raw Wood
- Breaching the the Island
- It’s All Gone South
- Fierce Waves
- Isabella Wash Out
- Chocomount Before Sandy
- Baby Snapping Turtle
- Turtle on the Green
- East Harbor, Looking West
- Single Tracking Coyote
- Hunkering Birds
- Message in a Bottle
- Strike a Banana Pose
- Spiderweb at Middle Farms
- Monarch Butterfly
- Sea Turtle on Chocomount
- Coyote Scat
- Large Snapping Turtle
- Dead Harbor Seal
- Stony Beach
- Category: Field Photos
- Category: From the Field
- Piping Plover Hide-and-Seek
- Tiny Toes, Big Race: Piping Plovers
- Killdeer Chick on the Rocks
- Waves, Wings, and Working Boats
- Swans on the Morning Move
- Eggs Marks the Spot
- Pollinator Paradise
- Dinner Time
- Day’s End Drift
- Dusk Delight
- Piping Plover Showdown
- Greater of the Two
- American Kestral
- Into the Woods
- Forage Afloat
- Out from Under the Woodwork*
- Black-Crowned Night Heron
- You’ve Come a Long Way
- Brand New Days
- Oystercatcher Welcome Committee
- Today’s Lone Peep
- Conservancy’s Healthy Habitat
- Diving Ducks
- Under the Radar…
- “It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
- Early Bird Catches the Worm*
- Spring’s Sprung
- A Worm Welcome*
- Annual Gulls’ Delight
- “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
- Taking a Fresh Look
- Common Loon
- Weather Permitting
- Widgeon View*
- Washed Ashore*
- Hatch a Plan
- February’s Ruddy Turnstones
- Winter Doldrums Be Gone!*
- Good Tidings
- Afternoon Break
- Winter’s Camo
- Sweet Stillness
- Pond for Pond
- No Wake
- SeaSmoke & Mirrors
- Conserving Our Underwater Meadows
- Hail, Hail Hay Harbor!
- AquaWeather Forecast
- The Shadow Knows
- Save It For A Rainy Day
- Commanding Attention
- As the Crow Flies
- Pond Habitat on Parade
- Ibis in the Morning
- Be An Eagle Scout
- Blustery & Brant
- Homeward Bound
- Becoming Eider
- High Five
- Mirror, Mirror
- And then there were two
- Blue Sea, Blue Sky, Bluebirds
- “Oh Canada!”
- Fish Crow
- Let Her Rip
- Plover Stop Over
- Early Morning’s Coyote Trek
- Widgeon Class
- I Spy “Goldeneye”
- Yesterday’s Sanderling Pair
- Just Around the Block
- Hay Harbor’s Great Blue Heron
- Eastbound Commute
- Morning’s Marine Traffic Report
- Search For Snowy
- This Morning’s Forager
- The Annual Turkey Chop
- All Too Familiar-
- As Above, So Below
- “Exchanging Pheasantries”
- Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow?!
- Today’s Milkweed Fluff
- Wearing your Sunday best
- Strike a Banana Pose
- Fishers Island Sound
- Red-tailed Hawk Pair
- Three Cheers for Chocomount!
- A Snippet that’s Quicker
- The Island Blues
- West by Westwest
- Wooley Bear Naked!
- Moon’s Fullness
- Northern Harrier
- Isabella Beauty
- Keeper of The Sound
- It’s Official!
- Tell-tail Signs
- Bats!
- Cormorant Flotilla
- Gulls at Work
- Home is Here
- Beauty on Parade
- Tree Swallows Prepare for Lift Off!
- Wind Dancers!
- Preen for the Day
- Skipper & Cricket Team
- Fogged In
- Plague of Plastics
- Monarchs Munching
- The Sound of Serenity
- Along Came a Spider
- Thistle Do It!
- Placid Plover
- Bevy of Bathing Beauties!
- Morning’s Bathing Beauty
- Sitting Amongst Friends
- Summer’s Beauty on Parade
- Evening’s Hummingbird
- Weed Warriors: Still Strong
- Spotted Sandpiper Chick
- Mylar Maim
- Lion’s Mane Jelly Fish
- Bud, Blossom & Bloom
- Sanctuary of Sands, Fishers Island
- Recognizing Critical Nesting Habitat
- Seeking Refuge & Critical Habitat
- To Everything (Tern, Tern, Tern)
- Shorebird Reunion!
- Hungry Point Harbor Seals
- Mylar Menace
- This Morning – Up East is For the Birds
- To The Beat of the Downy Drummer
- The Oyster Catcher – Preen For a Day
- Young Gray Seal ashore on Chocomount
- Scarlet Tanager “Revisited”
- Queen Isabella Beach
- Proud Parents of 6 Cygnets
- Barred Owl’s Perch & Pond
- Morning Has Broken
- Raptors on Parade
- Spying Hidden Egrets
- Stay Just A Little Bit Longer…
- Finally, Spring’s Thaw
- Sweetness of Spring
- Speaking Out About Plastic Debris
- March in Like a Lion!
- Hey! Hay Harbor Seal
- Just Ducky with Winter!
- Winter Woolens?
- Bear Crossing!
- Demonstration Garden Moment
- Curious Oyster Catcher
- Hummingbird’s Spirit
- Little Blue Heron Juvenile
- American Redstart
- Help Is On Its Way!
- Queen Anne’s Meadow & Melody
- Spring Eve At Hungry Point
- Young Ruddy
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Mother’s Day Bluebird
- Move Over For The Piping Plover
- Father Bluebird’s Mother’s Day Gift
- Another Gray Seal Pup Ashore
- Slow & Steady Wins The Race
- Raven Spirit Returns
- Sitting Amongst My Peeps
- And A River Otter Runs Through It
- Breakfast With My Significant Otter
- Stranded Gray Seal Pup
- Young Northern Harrier
- Eastern Bluebirds Sighted West!
- Bobbing Bufflehead
- Spider Crab Molting Season
- Autumn of Our Content
- Hay Harbor’s Local Green Heron
- Sultry Summer Swallows
- Short-billed Dowitcher’s Brunch
- Make Way For Ducklings Dive
- Category: grants
- Category: grasslands restoration
- Category: Habitat
- Category: Featured Habitat
- Category: Insects
- Category: Invasive Plants
- Category: News
- A Walk with Doug Tallamy
- Pitch In for the Planet- Earth Day 04/19
- 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
- Famed Scientist Edward Osborne “E.O.” Wilson Dies at 92
- 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
- Unidentified Disease Killing Songbirds
- Goldfish Gone “Wild”!
- View Fishers Island Moths With An Expert
- Keep it Clean T-Shirts Now Available
- States Push Back Against Releasing Balloons
- Carpenter Bees Are Important Native Pollinators
- Community Photo Contest 2021
- New and Serious Threat to Boxwood Shrubs
- Marine Debris Cleanup: Adopt a Beach
- Marine Debris Repurposed!
- Note to Ospreys: Bald Eagles May Be Moving Into the Neighborhood
- Summer Internship Opportunity
- Fishers Island’s Coyotes Are Here to Stay
- World of Difference Between Egg Cases
- FI School Seniors are Finalists in 2021 Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair
- Two New Books of Note
- 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
- Just for Fun: An easy Way to Learn the Sounds and Songs of Local Birds
- Plum Island Saved from Auction Block
- 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
- Massive Plastic Whale Sculptures Draw Attention to Ocean Plastic Pollution
- Spotted Lanternfly: Not a Threat To FI…Yet
- New Fluorometer Meter Boosts Oceanography Studies at Fishers Island School
- Doug Tallamy’s Bestselling Nature Books
- Stink Bugs Like to Winter Inside Houses
- Monarch Butterfly Sightings Always a Delight
- What Plants Do to Survive!
- 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
- Links to Seagrass Webinars
- Fishers Island Seagrass Management Coalition Seeking Input from Fishers Island Community
- 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
- A Tale of Two Nests
- 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
- The Fishers Island Conservancy COVID 19 protocols
- Injured Adult Harp Seal Uses the Race for Rest & Recuperation
- Social Distancing
- Signs of Spring
- Enduring Comfort
- The Calming Waters of Fishers Island
- List of Native Grassland and Wildflower Seeds for East End Habitat Restoration Project
- 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
- November Sparkles and Milkweed Floats
- 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
- Colorful Mosquito Eater
- 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
- Up Close and Personal
- 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
- The Telltale Tail
- July 20 Parade Ground Tours & Property Walk-Throughs
- Coyote Territory
- Mourning’s Light
- Gone Fishing
- “Take Back The Harbor” Screening July 14
- “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
- Insect Species Declining Could Be Catastrophic
- New Maintenance Shed
- Thanksgiving Owl
- Ecologists Have this Simple Request to Homeowners — Plant Native
- Fall 2018 Bird Migration Survey Results
- Red-tailed Hawk vs. Mink
- Ospreys in Southold Town
- Dolphins Make Appearance
- 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!
- NY Sues EPA Over Long Island Sound Dumping Site
- Hunting for Evidence of Ancient Hurricanes in Fishers Island Ponds
- Shorebirds, The World’s Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction
- 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”
- Starfish Spotted in Hay Harbor
- Wildlife Monitoring and Connecting with the Natural Environment
- 2015-16 Sentinels
- 2014 Sentinels
- Meet the Island Sentinels!
- Category: Stewardship
- Category: Video
- Category: Video Snippets
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- Marine Debris September 2025
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- Marine Debris December 2023
- Mammals of Fishers Island
- Marine Debris November 2023: Big Stony
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- Beach Debris April 2019
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- 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