Look up at the sky! I told my kids. Another hawk overhead. Living in the Hamptons we often stared up at the sky or searched telephone posts and wires looking for birds of prey. From the Spring onwards my children and I caught sight of Ospreys sitting on their high nest poles scanning the water nearby. I’ve even […]
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We went to East Hampton village’s Nature Trail on the official first day of spring. And the swan song of winter. A little sanctuary for wildlife right near Main Street. Once it was a swamp and wetlands. Then in 1901 part of it became a private Japanese water garden. And since 1951 the land deeded
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Just past Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor is a duck crossing on Jermain Avenue. The ducks regularly cross the road here between Otter pond and some marshy woods on the other side. Often you’ll see them waiting by the side of the road until the traffic is clear before all the ducks waddle across!
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The days are short so we just went for a ride to Otter Pond not far away from the end of our road. Practicing Swan Lake on scooters. The ducks scooted but the swans approached. No crossbows were aimed instead bread was offered. But the seagulls began swooping in like minions of a sorcerer. The swans
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Home from school for the Thanksgiving break, on a chilly but sunny day, I took my two to the Morton National Wildlife Refuge. Instead of feeding the ducks in the pond at the end of our road, we went and fed wild birds from our hands. We filled two bags up with seeds and nuts
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We’re moving to a new home in the Hamptons this week and one thing I will miss is the constant show put on by the wildlife in my garden. And in the field and small copse behind the fence. I was just sitting outside on my porch and watched two squirrels, two chipmunks, a turtle,
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