On March 22, 2023, the FIFD executed a controlled burn at Middle Farms. The osprey were both on the nest just before the burn but did not stick around. Later that evening, after the burn, a Red-tailed Hawk briefly visited the nest. Live Osprey Cam
On March 21 Carolyn Ross spotted an osprey on the Middle Farms nest. We checked the video archive and confirmed that a female landed at 6:45 AM with a male osprey landing moments later. During the first half hour the osprey remained on separate sides of the nest. PLEASE NOTE: We had technical
Two osprey were spotted on Middle Farms nest early Tuesday morning March 21, 2023! A special thanks to Carolyn Ross for providing the screen capture and exciting news. Live Osprey Cam
ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2006 SHIPS ASHORE! Wrecks and Rescues on Fishers Island Curated by HLFM director Pierce Rafferty Tug Shawanese Ashore Near Silver Eel Cove April 1911 Copyright Mystic Seaport Collection, Mystic, CT The tug Shawanese slammed into Fishers Island in the middle of the night on March 30, 1911. The Day reported that
ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 YEAR ROUND: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY VITAL SERVICES THREE CHURCHES Three Fishers Island churches, circa 1914. Photograph by Brown and Dawson. Museum Collection The original Union Chapel is featured at left, Our Lady of Grace Church at center, and St. John’s
ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 YEAR ROUND: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY A NEW SETTLEMENT AND TOWN Map of Lots on Fishers Island, Embracing the Highland Range, May 1, 1878, traced 1919. Museum Collection. The original of this map was produced just two years after the island-owning Fox family began developing
ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 YEAR ROUND: A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY WORK AND WORKERS Capt. Nash of the Steamer Munnatawket, circa 1905. Courtesy of Diane Franford. An early and long-serving employee of the Fergusons’ private Navigation Co. (founded in 1890), Capt. Nash lived on Fishers Island in a house filled
THE HENRY L. FERGUSON MUSEUM ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2022 Year Round: A Celebration of Community Year Round This year’s Annual Exhibition acknowledges, celebrates, and honors the people, organizations, and recurring events that support and bind our Fishers Island community together throughout the
On the morning of October 4, 2022, an American bald eagle visited Middle Farms osprey nest to feed. Osprey Cam
On September 15, 2022 one of the juvenile osprey briefly stopped by Middle Farms nest for a final visit of the season. Moments after leaving, another osprey flies by the camera but it is not clear if this was the sibling, one of the adults – or another osprey. The clips below capture two
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F.I. Sketchbook 2005
