6+ hour, 32+ min ago   (864+ words) These were a few of the terms bandied about at Doug Tallamy’s talk last week at the Southampton Arts Center, hosted by the Lake Agawam Conservancy and attended by close to 200 people. Mr. Tallamy is an entomologist, conservationist, professor at…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (865+ words) A discussion about adding up the deer in East Hampton Town ended instead with plans for how best to subtract them at Tuesday’s town board meeting. That wasn’t the plan. In fact, Councilman Tom Flight, the board liaison to both…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (781+ words) A vote that would have amended and ostensibly weakened the 53-year-old Endangered Species Act was scheduled by House Republican leadership for April 22 but was not held, after enough rank-and-file Republicans, including Representative Andrew Garbarino from Long Island’s Second District, spoke…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (985+ words) An Indian peafowl of unknown origin has been roaming a neighborhood in Clearwater Beach in Springs since at least December, but despite plenty of attention on neighborhood apps and Facebook, no one has claimed the bird. Somehow the visitor, better…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (597+ words) The East Hampton Town Board held an impressive 13 public hearings on April 2 but received few comments. In fact, the only one of the 13 to draw any comments at all was on an amendment to the town code that would prohibit…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (859+ words) Scores of dead Canada geese half buried by blown sand in various stages of decomposition and strewn across the beaches of the East End somehow made sense in early 2026, what with the dead or dying trees, a brand-new war in…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (769+ words) According to numbers provided by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the majority of the almost 700 geese found dead in and around Georgica Pond over the last couple of weeks, the victims of avian flu, were buried on…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (537+ words) Approximately 600 dead Canada geese, believed to be victims of avian flu, have been removed from around Georgica Pond in the last two days and buried in the sand, Jim Grimes, an East Hampton Town trustee, said Friday afternoon. "I had…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (802+ words) While people are becoming inured to encounters with dead birds, it is still shocking to come across dozens of carcasses. John Sabasteanski decided to take a walk on the beach near Wainscott Pond last weekend with his daughter Nika. “As…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (620+ words) The count is an annual global event sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It tasks citizen scientists, for example, you, with simply observing which birds are outside in this cold month and submitting the data to eBird. “These observations…...