3+ hour, 47+ min ago  (332+ words) Paella season on Martha's Vineyard begins with the first full moon of summer. Before I think about ingredients, my mind travels back to Nerja, a whitewashed village on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, where I learned to cook a giant…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (388+ words) Baby birds are out and about, both as nestlings and fledglings. They can be very noisy, especially when parents arrive with food, which helps us find and watch their antics. Some baby birds are precocial, covered with down feathers. They…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (341+ words) Even though singing has diminished, it still is peak nesting season, as the following sightings of 20 species with baby birds documents. Jerry Twomey got his first look at a screech owl chick in one of his nest boxes in his…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago  (649+ words) Watching bird behavior hints at what the bird is doing. Carrying vegetation or food means it is either building a nest or feeding its mate or chicks. You may even find the nest. And of course, seeing baby birds means…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago  (608+ words) As migration slows down our attention shifts to nesting. We pay attention to watching interesting behaviors hoping to confirm that they are producing youngsters. John Nelson briefly spotted a Mississippi Kite at Katama Farm on June 5, as it flew toward…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (433+ words) Four migrant warblers were spotted this week. Jacob Llodra found one blackburnian warbler along Pease's Point Way on May 25, and Nick Teague spotted a bay-breasted warbler at Seven Gates on May 25 and a worm-eating warbler at the Hoft Farm on…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (57+ words) The Vineyard Gazette Bird Sightings on Martha's Vineyard: June 2026 Monday, June 1, 2026 Keep up with bird activity on Martha's Vineyard through the Bird News column, and report your bird sightings to email protected. Island Light: Goodnight May Memorial Day Celebration is…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (835+ words) In livestock production, cattle are the single biggest contributor to climate change globally. Cows take up space, pollute aquifers, produce methane and require tons of farmed, monocultured land to feed." But raising cattle doesn't have to be bad for the…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (451+ words) Even in late May northbound migrants are still passing through. Sometimes the birds pass through quickly (blink and you might miss them) or they remail hidden in thickets and are hard to find. Thankfully, most are more cooperative. On May…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (768+ words) Every spring, North Atlantic right whales make their way from their calving grounds off of Georgia and Florida and travel up the coast to the Northeast and Canada, where food is rich in the summer." This year, the population was…...