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Edwin Migration North 2014: April 1 – Banning Cove

By |2020-04-14T18:31:53-04:00April 2nd, 2014|Museum News|

4/1/14    Edwin spends the morning along Banning Cove area of the Niantic River, and heads east across the Thames before noon to fish at the Groton Reservoirs then returns but heads further west to the Connecticut River in Lyme to fish for a while then returns to Banning Cove around 5 pm before heading north

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Edwin Migration North 2014: March 31 – Ledyard Reservoirs

By |2020-04-14T18:31:53-04:00April 1st, 2014|Museum News|

3/30/14 Edwin briefly heads south and to the Niantic River area by 8:15am but returns north to Darrow Pond and then Lake Konomoc and then heads east across the Thames River around noon time and spends the afternoon and evening at Ledyard Reservoir and Moran Pond reservoir. 3/31/14 Edwin spends the morning at the Moran

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Edwin Migration North 2014: March 30 – Across the Thames

By |2020-04-14T18:31:53-04:00March 31st, 2014|Museum News|

3/28/14    Edwin heads south and spends the morning in the Niantic River area fishing around Smith Cove and Gorton Pond before heading east and crosses the Thames River near Pequetanuck Cove in the early afternoon. He fishes at Avery Pond in Preston, then continues south through Ledyard and Mystic, eventually heading west, and reaches Ledyard

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Edwin Migration North 2014: March 28 – East Lyme – Montville

By |2020-04-14T18:31:53-04:00March 29th, 2014|Museum News|

3/27/14    Edwin spends the early morning at Powers Lake in East Lyme but then heads south to Bride Lake area and then east to Smith Cove area by noon before returning north to Lake Konomoc around 5 pm. He then heads further north and is at Bogue Brook Reservoir in Montville by 7 pm for

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Edwin Migration North 2014: March 27 – Connecticut

By |2020-04-14T18:31:54-04:00March 28th, 2014|Museum News|

3/24/14 Edwin is last tracked still in Trenton New Jersey around mid day, then suddenly goes "dark" and we do not receive any data transmissions for a while.
3/25/14 Around 4:30 pm we begin to receive data again from Edwin along the Niantic River in Connecticut and then near Darrow Pond by 8 pm.
3/26/14 We still are receiving only sporadic data from Edwin who is as far north as Davis Pond in Chesterfield around 6 pm and as far west as Powers Lake by 9 pm where he spends the night.
3/27/14 Edwin's data is still sporadic but he appears to be in Niantic...

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Edwin Migration North 2014: March 24 – New Jersey

By |2020-04-14T18:31:54-04:00March 25th, 2014|Museum News|

3/22/14 By 9 am Edwin heads north through Richmond and around 2:30 pm reaches Maryland then spends the night along the border between Queen Anne's and Kent counties just above the Chesapeake Bay.
3/23/14 By 9:30 am Edwin is headed northeast and by 11:30 briefly crosses the northern tip of Deleware into New Jersey before 1 pm and to Trenton by 5 pm where he spends the night.
3/24/14 Edwin is last tracked still in Trenton New Jersey...

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Edwin Migration North 2014: March 22 – Virginia

By |2020-04-14T18:31:54-04:00March 23rd, 2014|Museum News|

3/20/14 Edwin head north again, along the eastern coast of Georgia then crosses the border into South Carolina by around 2 pm and is at Sumter for the night.
3/21/14 By 8 am Edwin heads north and crosses into North Carolina just after noon, then reaches the border between Granville and Mecklenburg, Virginia around 6 pm and spends the night.
3/22/14 By 9 am Edwin heads north again and data is last received around noon just south of Richmond.

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Edwin Migration North 2014: March 19 – Florida

By |2020-04-14T18:31:54-04:00March 20th, 2014|Museum News|

3/17/14 By 9 am on St. Patrick's Day, Edwin heads north and spends the night in the Orlando area.
3/18/14 Edwin heads further north and spends the night along the border between Florida and Georgia
3/19/14 Edwin's tracking is last picked up still along the northern border of Florida.

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“Edwin” the Tagged Osprey is (Hopefully) Heading Back Our Way

By |2020-04-14T18:31:55-04:00March 18th, 2014|Museum News|

by Pierce Rafferty, HLFM Director The male osprey “Edwin,” tagged with a cell tower transmitter last spring on Fishers Island, recently reappeared in Venezuela after “going dark” for several months over the winter while out of cell tower range. He had last been tracked on September 29, 2013, in northern Venezuela after his long migration

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Edwin 2014 Migration North: March 10-17

By |2020-04-14T18:31:55-04:00March 18th, 2014|Museum News|

3/10/14    Around 1 pm Edwin reaches the Dominican Republic and crosses into Haiti where he spends the night near Artbonite 3/11/14    Edwin heads out in the early morning and reaches Guantanamo by early afternoon and spends the night in Santiago de Cuba. 3/12/14    Edwin heads west to Granma, Cuba by noon and spends the night.

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ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2023

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F.I. Sketchbook 2005

THE SKETCHBOOKS OF CHARLIE FERGUSON

In the full sweep of Fishers Island’s history, there is no artist more synonymous, more closely associated with Fishers Island than Charles B. “Charlie” Ferguson. The main show features images from two of Charlie's sketchbooks which functioned as illustrated diaries that were filled with daily activities, nature observations, personal notes, and lots of art—drawings, sketches, and watercolors—in various states of completion.

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