Sports

Paul Dickinson, a top teaching golf professional at the Atlantic and Montauk Downs clubs here, realized a dream recently, qualifying, at the age of 45, for the P.G.A. Championship, which is to be played in Tulsa, Okla., next week.

The northeasterly blow starting Friday was unfortunate, as the action on porgies, fluke, striped bass, weakfish, and even squid was on the upswing in many locations.

Last Thursday was a very good one sportswise at East Hampton High School, a day in which Bonac’s boys tennis team and its baseball team grappled with league champions — Ward Melville in tennis’s case and Sayville in baseball’s.

The eastern towhee breeds in Montauk, and if you go to Oyster Pond this weekend you can hear them calling and singing everywhere.

For the first time in a month, since the spring season began, on April 28 the Bonac boys tennis team played a home match, on redone courts to which the final touches had been added just a day or two before.

It wasn’t just bread baking or pet ownership that Covid refugees turned to once they had alighted here during the pandemic. Many also embraced horseback riding, observed Natalie Mattson, who owns Brennan’s Bit and Bridle in the Bridgehampton Commons.

A few weeks ago, Sebastian Gorgone, the gregarious and always welcoming proprietor of Mrs. Sam’s Bait and Tackle in East Hampton, explained to me that the local fishing season will get in high gear only once the daffodils begin to wilt. I had not heard of this local proverb before, and I wondered, was it true?

Over the next two weeks, spring bird migration will peak. Hundreds of millions of birds will fly up the country, largely south to north, in sync with blooming trees, flowers, and insect hatches. Many are attempting to reach the green attic of North America, the boreal forest of Canada, where they will breed and raise their young before reversing course in the autumn.

The East Hampton High School baseball team played two nonleaguers last week with Westhampton Beach, losing 7-0 there on April 26 and winning 10-4 here the next day.

More than 600 runners and walkers turned out at East Hampton's Main Beach Sunday for the May Day 5K, the brainchild of Dylan Cashin and Ryleigh O'Donnell, East Hampton High School sophomore long-distance runners. The event raised raised $18,000 for the Family Service League.

The first May Day 5K Run and Walk will set off from Main Beach on Sunday at 9 a.m., rain or shine, and the good news for participants and spectators alike is that the weather is expected to be perfect for the occasion.

To make your backyard bird-friendly, you'll need to think like a bird when making landscaping decisions.

Though East Hampton lost two to Miller Place, with Colin Ruddy on the mound Bonac blanked the Panthers 1-0 here on April 20, a pitching gem that topped a story on Suffolk’s mound aces in Saturday’s Newsday.

As I perused the selection of seafood on display at Schiavoni’s in Sag Harbor the other day, an elderly gentleman peering into the saltwater holding tank with about a dozen lobsters in it said to me, “I’d love to buy one, but not at this price.”

East Hampton High’s softball team busted out here on Saturday, pummeling Harborfields 27-1 in a league game that was foreshortened by “the mercy rule” after five innings of play.

Lona Rubenstein of Amagansett may be better known in recent years as a world-class poker player, but long before she took up that game, she was a champion in table tennis, competing nationally and internationally.

All three high school varsity baseball teams in this area — East Hampton, Pierson, and Bridgehampton — were doing well going into this week.

Sheaugh Costello can hit her targets with ease, dominating in team tournaments regionally and both team and solo play in New York State and the eastern United States.

I had a bit of trepidation as I started the 370-horsepower diesel engine. After writing numerous checks this winter that amounted to nearly $30,000 for a multitude of repairs to my 20-year-old craft, would it hold up?

While the song is the sparkling characteristic of the hermit thrush, I also appreciate its muted appearance. We can’t all be cardinals.

The fastest-growing sport in America — pickleball — is also the noisiest, according to a survey conducted by sound engineers hired by the Village of Sagaponack. As a result, the village board will recommend requiring new pickleball courts to be built with larger setback from adjacent properties.

The April 12 win over Half Hollow Hills West was Bonac’s third in a row, the first time apparently since 2016 that a girls track team here has begun a season at 3-0.

Members of the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday voiced a willingness to consider natural grass and dirt at the Little League fields to be constructed at 110 Stephen Hand’s Path in Wainscott.

My 30-foot Novia Scotia-built boat has been in the water for nearly three weeks, but, sadly, I’ve yet to untie its dock lines.

A historic marker honoring Carl Yastrzemski was unveiled at Bridgehampton High’s new baseball field on April 5 before an appreciative crowd numbering around 100, many of whom stayed to watch the first varsity baseball team the school has fielded since 1979.

East Hampton’s athletic director was to have appealed Monday to Section XI’s athletic council urging it to let the school’s varsity football team stay one more year in Division IV, a lower-enrollment division.

When was the last time an East Hampton baseball team was 6-0?

East Hampton High’s girls lacrosse team won one and then went out and ran the Katy’s Courage 5K, while the boys lacrosse Islanders went 3-3 and Bonac tennis remained undefeated.

Shortly before the school board voted to hire Kathy Masterson as its new athletic director, Joe Vas, East Hampton’s current athletic director, handed her a maroon-and-gray Bonac baseball cap — a symbolic passing of the torch.

Eleven days ago, on April 3, the northern gannets invaded Sag Harbor. A friend sent a video of several hundred crowding the waters surrounding Long Wharf. Above them, the sky teemed with more. In 20 years of birding around Sag Harbor, I had never seen more than a handful from the wharf.