When we see common goldeneye they are normally on our salt ponds or in the Sound, where they mostly spend the winter.

We do not know where common ravens are nesting this year, as their only known nest site from previous years — the Verizon telephone tower in Vineyard Haven — is unoccupied.

The brant are still hanging out at Ocean Park and other nearby locales.

One never knows where ideas for the next week's Bird News column will come from.

To my recollection, the family that once owned the land underneath the new Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury gave that property to the town.

Have you heard what sounds like somebody sharpening a saw by hand?