Four and Twenty Fish Crows By ROBERT A. CULBERT

Coniferous seeds in the boreal forests of Canada are in short supply this fall. And so the prediction is that many of the winter finches will head further south than they normally do. The first hint of this irruption is the abundance of red-breasted nuthatches over the past few weeks. They are reported from across the Island in numbers not seen in maybe five years.

On Sunday night after sunset the crescent moon appears due south.

It was a sunny Wednesday afternoon when Bret Stearns, director of the natural resources department for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah),

Usually brown or green, Marjorie Spitz of Aquinnah found a katydid that was pretty in pink.

Tisbury has hired the Edgartown dredge crew for an emergency job in the Tashmoo channel. Using finely-tuned teamwork, the crew makes the sand flow.