The 56th annual Martha’s Vineyard Christmas Bird Count was held on Saturday, Jan. 2.
There are a few bird species that are giving those milk-making mammals a run for their money.
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.
The 2014 inventory found there were 119 active osprey nests on the Island. If I did my math correctly, we had 63 successful nests.