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Two Chicks Spotted on Nest

By |2020-04-14T18:22:57-04:00June 6th, 2015|Museum News, Osprey Blog|

[slider id="ospreycam-2chicks2015"] These screen captures taken the morning of June 6, 2015 show that two chicks have hatched in the nest at Middle Farms Flats. [button link="https://fergusonmuseum.org/osprey-cam/" color="blue" target="_self" size="medium"]Go to LIVE OspreyCam[/button] (Note: The adult male is not Edwin or Charlie).

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OspreyCam Update: Waiting for Eggs to Hatch

By |2020-04-14T18:22:57-04:00June 5th, 2015|Museum News, Osprey Blog|

This screen capture was taken at the end of May - about one month after incubation began. An adult osprey was first sighted on the nest March 31, and shortly thereafter was joined by another. A courtship soon followed and by the end of April at least one osprey could be seen on the nest

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Two Osprey on Nest

By |2020-04-14T18:24:31-04:00April 3rd, 2015|Museum News, Osprey Blog|

The first osprey on the nest, has now been joined by another. [button link="https://fergusonmuseum.org/osprey-cam/" color="blue" target="_self" size="medium"]Go to LIVE OspreyCam[/button]

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Osprey Sighted on Nest

By |2020-04-14T18:24:32-04:00March 31st, 2015|Museum News, Osprey Blog|

An osprey was first sighted on the nest this year March 31. [button link="https://fergusonmuseum.org/osprey-cam/" color="blue" target="_self" size="medium"]Go to LIVE OspreyCam[/button]

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H.L.F. Museum Board Welcomes 3 New Members

By |2020-04-14T18:25:06-04:00February 3rd, 2015|Museum News|

At their January 25, 2015 meeting, the Museum’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to invite three people to join the Board: Terry McNamara, Megan Bohlen Raymond, and Barbie Riegel.

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Love Of Nature Became Expertise In Botany

By |2020-04-14T18:25:06-04:00January 26th, 2015|Museum News|

Photo by Genie McPerson Trevor By ANNE M. HAMILTON Special to The Courant January 25, 2015   Penelope Chester Sharp could often be seen with a jeweler's loupe and a camera roaming the shoreline or the trap rock ridges of Connecticut in search of plants... [button link="http://www.courant.com/hc-extraordinary-life-penelope-sharp-0125-20150123-story.html#page=1" color="blue" target="_blank" size="medium" title="Read Full Story"]Read

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Elizabeth McCance elected H.L.F. Museum President

By |2020-04-14T18:25:06-04:00January 4th, 2015|Museum News|

The Board of Trustees of Fishers Island’s H.L. Ferguson Museum announced on December 23 that Elizabeth McCance has been unanimously elected as the President of the Museum, effective immediately. She graciously accepted her new position.

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H.L.F. Museum Closing For Winter

By |2020-04-14T18:25:06-04:00January 3rd, 2015|Museum News|

The museum will be closed to all visitors during renovations effective January 5, 2015. The date of reopening will be posted in the spring or early summer.

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Charlie Tracking: Jan 1 – Maria la Baja, Colombia

By |2020-04-14T18:25:06-04:00January 2nd, 2015|Charlie Blog, Museum News|

At the close of 2014, Charlie was still at Maria la Baja (a town in Bolívar Department in northern Colombia), where he migrated to from Fishers Island in the fall - and had reached on October 5. Most of his days are spent between Lake Maria la Baja and a smaller lake to the northwest in

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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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