Last Friday morning, James Powell from NOAA, and a grad school researcher named Nora Sturgeon arrived on the 10:00 boat with a cooler and a lot of equipment. A small…
In the winter, large flocks of shorebirds use our beaches for resting and feeding. Many of them are returning from the arctic, where they nest in the summer. This flock…
The shell middens along the intercoastal waterway are host to one of the greatest wintering concentrations of American Oystercatchers on the east coast. In the winter, the birds congregate along…
Sometimes, this time of year, it looks like it is snowing, as the salt myrtle spreads its dandelion-like seeds out across the sky in fluffy clouds. Salt Myrtle, or Baccharis…
Thursday, three of us joined Lori, the Environmental Education Director, in dodging the mosquitoes to count migrating warblers. Our island is in the eastern flyway, and many bird species migrate…