New York Natural Heritage Program Biodiversity Study of Land Trust Properties For the last two years, a team of scientists from the New York Natural Heritage Program (NYNHP) has been conducting an inventory of the Museum’s Land Trust properties. Ecologists, zoologists, and botanists have used a variety of survey methodologies
Nature Notes Atlantic Mole Crab by Terry McNamara Perhaps Fishers Island’s most violent, turbulent environment is on our southern beaches, where the waves of Block Island Sound continuously break on shore. Although the coastline is generally rock and pebbles, there are several beaches where the substrate is mostly sand. It is in these areas,
Land Trust Report Spring 2023 by Bob Miller There have been major developments in terms of land preservation and the expansion of our sanctuaries since the Land Trust report in the Spring of 2022. In December 2022, the Land Trust received a donation of a 2.07 acre lot on Brooks
From the President Elizabeth McCance This March, I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Cuba with an environmental group. We spent five days aboard a dive boat in the Gardens of the Queen marine protected area, snorkeling and SCUBA diving. The fish, corals, seagrasses, sharks, sea fans, rays, and other wildlife were tremendous.
During the first week after the third egg hatched at Middle Farms, mom and dad osprey continued their efforts to tend and defend the nest. The feedings increased significantly and the chicks grew stronger each day. The following video clips and images capture some of the nest activity from June 7, 2023 - June
The third osprey egg at our Middle Farms nest has hatched! On the morning of June 5, 2023, we were able to confirm three osprey chicks with the web cam. Special thanks to Vicki Rafferty for helping to compile the highlights of screen captures and video segments below. Mother osprey feeding three
The second osprey egg at our Middle Farms nest has hatched! On the morning of June 3, 2023, we were able to capture the second osprey chick on the web cam. Special thanks to Vicki Rafferty for helping to compile the highlights of screen captures and video segments below. We expect the third egg
The first osprey egg at our Middle Farms nest this year has hatched! On the morning of June 2, 2023, we were able to capture the first osprey chick on the web cam. The video clips below show adorable head bopping segments of the chick nestled in with mother and some of it's first
Osprey Teamwork After the eggs were laid in April, the osprey couple has worked together to incubate the eggs and continue to tend the nest at Middle Farms. Most often a single osprey is on the nest, but the video clips below capture some of the moments that the osprey have worked together at
Walking Paths at Middle Farms: Balancing Recreation and Conservation The paths through the grassland at Middle Farms are the most consistently used of the more than twelve miles of trails we maintain. We have made a number of changes in the paths that we hope strike a good balance between human use and conservation
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F.I. Sketchbook 2005
