This is the season to hear migrating songbirds at night as they pass overhead. Their short chips and notes are easy to overlook.

Help Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fern and Feather Day Camp. I was teaching there when I was a mere 23 years old.

A new shorebird came in for a landing at Squibnocket last week, a Baird’s sandpiper — a rare fall migrant on the Vineyard.

Last weekend Luanne Johnson and Liz Baldwin of Biodiversity Works asked for volunteers to help celebrate World Shorebirds Day.

The American golden plover was hunted on the Vineyard and elsewhere in the 1800s.

Bob Shriber's yard in Aquinnah was the hot spot as he spotted a yellow-billed cuckoo, which has been rare on the Vineyard this summer.