Conservationists of all ages fanned out around shorelines up-Island and down Saturday for the Vineyard Conservation Society’s 27th annual beach cleanup.

The photographed black hole that received world-wide attention last week resides in the constellation Virgo.

At the Vineyard Conservation Society annual beach cleanup on Saturday, likely debris collections will include an assortment of bottles, cans, cigarettes, and styrofoam. In 1997 though, Brendan O’Neill and Linsey Lee found an actual message in a bottle.

Indigo buntings often show up in the spring when southerly winds carry them beyond their breeding grounds. These bright bluebirds do not nest here every year; why this is so is unexplained, since they breed just about everywhere else in New England.

Nests are miracles of materials, skills, and siting, and birds are experts at creating a perfect place for their eggs and offspring.

Sunday night's gibbous moon appears close to the bright star Regulus in the zodiacal constellation Leo.