Outdoors

Bass Run Bodes Well The observant driver up and down Montauk Highway has seen trap stakes being trailered hither and yon. The stakes are being driven into the bottom and strung with twine along the north coast of Napeague, and in Fort Pond Bay, Montauk. Nature Notes The two good news-bad news environmental events of the past week are in the once-in-a-decade category. CREATURE FEATURE: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Pet and livestock owners are never oblivious to the arrival of spring. The grass starts growing, the birds start singing . . . and wads of hair start peeling off our critters. Shedding season is upon us. MOLE'S CORNER Readers' Questions On Gardening And Nature Better Than Thrumpit A literary tea! Imagine delicate cups of Earl Grey, little cucumber sandwiches, and ladies in hats reading aloud about gardening. How too, too English, you say - how Barbara Pym, how Virginia Woolf, how terribly nice.