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Pigeons are extremely sensitive to low frequency sounds; they can see into the ultraviolet range of light, and they are able to detect minute changes in air pressure. They don’t keep the tidiest of homes, allowing feces, and even dead nestlings, to remain in the nest, and since they reuse their nests, they get bigger and nastier as time goes on.

The Mariners defeated Sag Harbor's Whalers in the county B-C-D championship Tuesday and will now play Class A Kings Park Friday night for the county small schools title. Pierson's first game in the state tourney is March 9.

The Pierson Whalers and Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees met in the Suffolk County tournament’s C-D game Saturday at Sachem East High School in Farmingville, with Pierson, as expected, winning by a wide margin.

The white-throated sparrow’s song “is a lament,” George Gladden wrote, “a lament which is wistful and ineffably plaintive, but in which there is no despair, only sweet hopefulness.”

At Amagansett’s Sportime Arena, three indoor soccer championship games were played Saturday, with F.C. Napoli, in the men’s open division, the East Hampton Futbol Club, in the women’s division, and Fenix Club, in the men’s 37-plus division, emerging as the trophy winners.

John Romero’s Maidstone Market men’s soccer team has been a perennial champion outdoors, but it’s taken a while for his futsal squad, the East Hampton Futbol Club, to master the indoor version.

Kieran Hildreth of Montauk and Burke, Vt., won the Vermont State Tri-Council u-14 giant slalom alpine ski race held at Burke Mountain on Jan. 31, defeating 77 competitors.

The Pierson and Bridgehampton High School boys basketball teams won county classification titles Wednesday at Westhampton Beach High School, the Whalers over Greenport and the Bees over Smithtown Christian.

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) Whalers, top seeded in Class C, defeated Southold 67-41 Saturday afternoon, and are now looking forward to another go at Southampton in the county B-C-D game on March 1.

Lucky for us, if the ponds remain unfrozen, kingfishers are fairly common around the East End during the winter months.

All eight of the swimmers Craig Brierley took with him to the county championship meet at Stony Brook University over the weekend swam personal-best times.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team placed well in the League II meet last week, the wrestling team tallied 30 points in a League V meet, while the girls track team struggled at the small schools indoor championships.