Birds are quite literally both marvelous and wonderful. We marvel, with no small dose of envy, at their ability to fly, and we wonder, among many other things, what happens to so many of them in the winter. For millennia, the mysteries of migration—Where do birds go? How do they find their way to
2012 Nature Notes Fishers Island is host to many bird species and perhaps the most striking are the herons and egrets, members of the bird family Ardeidae.
A Detailed Look at Fishers Island's First Known Prize Fight by Pierce Rafferty Fishers Island's colorful boxing history begins in the late 1860s during the period when Robert Ralston Fox, a retired manufacturer, owned the island and ran it as a cattle and sheep stock farm. The entire island was his private estate for he
Island History: Prize Fights on Fishers Island by Pierce Rafferty If a poll were taken today asking what sport was most associated with Fishers Island, without doubt sailing or golf would top the list. For those with longer memories, horse shows and dog trials might also come to mind. However, believe it or not, there
New York Report by James H. Hill, published in April 1901 (The Auk, New Series Vol. XVIII, No. 1, April 1901) Flat Hammock off North Hill once hosted a large tern colony. At the eastern end of Fishers Island, about two or three miles distant from the Connecticut shore is Wicopesset, a small,
From the Files of the Museum: Nesting Terns On and Around Fishers Island One Hundred Years Ago
2012 Newsletter From the President by Penni Sharp Spring is well underway on Fishers Island as I write this annual greeting on behalf of the Museum. After one of the mildest winters in my memory, spring has brought a strange mix of weather conditions with temperatures well into the 80s during March followed by chilly
2011 Nature Notes Two years ago, a bird not seen at Fishers Island for a number of years, returned. The bird was the Piping plover (Charadrius melodus), a federally threatened species in the Atlantic region. During the 1970s, the island supported a small colony of this species near Middle Farms; however, habitat change and other causes resulted in the disappearance of this bird from Fishers.
2011 Newsletter Island History: A World War II Mystery Solved by Pierce Rafferty Barge with US Navy "Herald" equipment and cables off coast of Fishers Island, NY, during World War II. "The original "Big Club" clubhouse is prominent in background. – Courtesy of Jim Carpenter In early February 2011, an e-mail was sent
2011 Newsletter One Man's Experience in Aquaculture by G.C. Matthiessen Aerial photo of Island Pond and surrounding ponds, April 2001. Island Pond, also known as "Oyster Pond," has a peninsula jutting into it with a small pond at center. Courtesy of NYS Office for Technology The following article appeared in Wrack Lines, Vol.
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