You’re not from around here, are you? A migrating northern shoveler, so named for its particularly long bill, stopped by the Nature Trail in East Hampton last week.
Durell Godfrey
Outdoors
Almost all green plants are phototrophic: They grow toward the light, away from the dark. You often find spiders, especially daddy longlegs, in corners where two walls meet the ceiling—three surfaces—the perfect spot to put down their threads and wait for prey.
Durell Godfrey and Catherine Tandy
Paul Lester and crew, with the help of their good luck statue, foreground, had a good day of fishing at Wiborg’s Beach on Monday.
Russell Drumm
Eric Linsner used a live eel to catch this 581/2-pound striped bass off Montauk Point on Saturday.
Chris Miller
Trees don’t stand a chance on Napeague, except for the pitch pines in little hollows, as the winds sweeping across from south to north in the summer and vice versa in the winter keep any from getting a toehold.
If not unprecedented, the vast numbers of striped bass that visited the waters around Montauk Point for the past week have not been seen for many years.
Atilla Ozturk
Grackles and red-winged blackbirds, above, are beginning to fly around in mixed flocks.
Durell Godfrey
