Museum Receives Edwin Tracking Data
The Museum continues to receive data updates from “Edwin’s” transmitter and is now posting them for Google Earth users to download and view. For more information go to: Track Edwin
Osprey Video Test
Osprey tending the nest on May 13, 2013. (Just about 30 seconds into the video, the male returns)
Osprey Video IYUY
Osprey tending the nest on May 13, 2013. (Just about 30 seconds into the video, the male returns)
Eelgrass of Fishers Island
Fishers Island is one of the last remaining places where Eelgrass (Zostera marina) thrives in New York waters. Once found in every harbor, creek and cove on the East Coast, this critically important species is now only found in cool, clear and often wave-swept waters like those
Island Electricity: A Brief History
Island Electricity 1899 ~ Fishers Island’s first electric power plant began operations Fishers Island’s first electric power plant began operations in 1899 in a brick structure that still stands across the street just north of today’s Goose Island Gas Station (formerly
Osprey “Edwin” is “Tagged”
Rob Bierregaard, a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, was invited by the Museum to come to Fishers Island on May 11, 2013, to “tag” an osprey with a transmitter.
Water Filtration Plant Construction, circa 1927
Construction of the New Water Filtration Plant, Fishers Island, NY, circa 1927. All photographs in this gallery were taken for or by Mr. Donald F. Hine, an engineer who worked on the development of the east end of Fishers Island in the mid-1920s
FI’s Once Preeminent Hermit
FI’s Once Preeminent Hermit by Pierce Rafferty May 2013 Man standing at spot on South Dumpling where “Uncle Billy” burned his shanty. Oars mark allegedly “poisoned” well. 1895 A lengthy New York Times article, published on July 13, 1880, reviewed the new resort on Fishers Island. While the unidentified reporter appeared somewhat ambivalent
Two eggs in the nest!
On the morning of March 24th, a pair of ospreys was spotted on this nest. They subsequently settled. On April 20th, a single egg was first reported. On April 21st a second egg was confirmed.
