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#164505 7 Jun 2013 | 10:21 pm
On May 23rd at approximately 9:30 PM, five fearless, rain-soaked GFEE volunteers walked a Southold beach counting and tagging spawning horseshoe crabs. The volunteers were participating in a unique c...
Boulder With A Story To Tell 9 Apr 2013 | 08:22 pm
The boulder sat there — at the southwest corner of Nichols Road and Stony Brook University’s south entrance — when my family moved to Suffolk County in February 1968. As big as a pickup truck, maybe m...
Baffled by a Squirrel 4 Apr 2013 | 01:12 am
When eastern gray squirrel trumped the homemade baffle on our bird feeder, I found myself torn between feeling triumphant for the squirrel and feeling personally defeated. All winter, the squirrels h...
Dear Spring, it’s me Missy 22 Mar 2013 | 09:49 pm
Dear Spring, it’s me Missy, The calendar says that you are here, but it’s hard to believe when snowflakes are falling from the sky. This was my first Winter back on Long island in five years and it’s...
Chickadees: Personable Little Balls of Feathers 25 Feb 2013 | 08:35 pm
Black-Capped Chickadees weigh about four-tenths of one ounce, the heft of just four U.S. pennies. Yet these little feather balls pack a whole lot of activity, personality, brazen curiosity and toughne...
Strange But True: Dancing Aphids and Honeydew Feasts 6 Feb 2013 | 10:24 pm
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any weirder (or more fascinating) in the natural world, enter Grylloprociphilus imbricator, a.k.a., the beech blight aphid, sometimes called the beech woolly ap...
If You Can’t Beat It, Eat IT- Cooking with Invasive Plants 23 Jan 2013 | 10:50 pm
Japanese knotweed, autumn olive, Asian bittersweet, Japanese honeysuckle, garlic mustard, mile-a-minute vine- these are just a few of the invasive plant species that can be found growing along roadsid...
Reading Impressions in the Sand 7 Jan 2013 | 09:15 pm
In the popular television show, “N.C.I.S.”, Abby applies her intellect and experience to read clues and solve mysteries from her high-tech laboratory. On eastern Long Island, Callie Velmachos applies ...
A Butterfly in December 17 Dec 2012 | 08:00 pm
During the first week of December, Group for the East End Educators waited for busses filled with students to arrive for a forest field lesson in Northwest Woods of East Hampton. Air temperature near...
Now That’s a Big Bug 7 Dec 2012 | 08:31 pm
While walking up to my front door one chilly November evening, the last thing I expected to see creeping along the steps was a 2-inch, black beetle with a huge tear-dropped shaped abdomen! Generally...
