Nature & Science
This is the season to hear migrating songbirds at night as they pass overhead. Their short chips and notes are easy to overlook.
The iconic and much-debated pond comes back into the spotlight this week as the town prepares to begin a one-year watershed study. A series of public forums begins tonight in the West Tisbury Library.
The crescent moon moves through the southern constellations Libra and Scorpius this weekend.
Hans-Jürgen Melderis hails from Hamburg, Germany, and on Monday he presented a program entitled Other Life in the Universe? On NASA’s Discovery of Extra Solar Earth-like Planets in the Goldilocks Zone.
Conservation groups around the Island are struggling to protect piping plovers and other shorebirds from an abundance of skunks and crows, which have learned to seek food on Island beaches during the summer.
West Tisbury Free Public Library, Island Grown Schools and the Farm Institute will launch a new community seed library initiative, to be housed at the West Tisbury library.
Almanac
A comprehensive guide to weather and tides on the Island.
Vineyard Gardener
I guess this past week weather-wise is called a January thaw. We did not really experience it the last several years as December was unseasonably warm.
Farm & Field
Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.