Large flocks of grackles are not necessarily welcome at feeders.

The regional high school district committee voted 5-4 at an overflow meeting Monday to press ahead with a plan to rebuild the school athletic fields, using artificial turf for the main field.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank has added nearly 40 acres of rolling hills, stone walls, wetlands and forest to its holdings off Lighthouse Road.

A thin crescent moon appears low in the southwestern sky on Tuesday evening.

The roar of machinery and crunch of crushed vegetation were in the air at Long Point Wildlife Refuge in West Tisbury this week, marking the beginning of a pair of state-funded projects to restore rare Island sandplain grasslands.

Kleptoparasitism is a fancy word for a rather odd behavior: when an animal robs another animal of its food.