Regional News

At Wellfleet Bay's Nature Day Camps in Wellfleet and Chatham, campers ages 4 to 17 have fun and make friends as they explore the nature of Cape Cod. Registration now open for summer 2020!

Despite comparatively few sea turtle strandings this season, Cape Cod's cold-stun phenomenon still drew the attention of some prominent media outlets this year—including the New York Times and the BBC.

Winter birding on Cape Cod isn’t just good—it’s exceptional! Early winter weather conditions on Cape Cod can be more like late fall in other parts of the Commonwealth.

With the arrival of a new year, the sanctuary is growing its conservation science programs in local schools and offering hands-on career preparation to future environmental educators.

Melissa Lowe Cestaro—a 25-year veteran of Mass Audubon—has been chosen to succeed Sanctuary Director Bob Prescott, who is retiring this fall after nearly 40 years at the helm.

After finding a dead bat that wasn't typically found on Nantucket, researchers began monitoring the island’s bat population. They discovered that this federally threatened bat species wasn't so rare on Nantucket after all. 

At Felix Neck’s Fern & Feather Day Camp in Edgartown, campers ages 4 to 14 have fun and make friends as they explore the nature of Martha’s Vineyard at our 194-acre wildlife sanctuary. Registration now open for summer 2020!

Felix Neck soared this year, and we want to share some of the accomplishments made possible by our nature community. Find out about our year of learning and teaching, sharing nature, and protecting wildlife in our Annual Report.

Felix Neck has been awarded a TernSOLAR challenge grant from the Tern Foundation to support the installation of a second solar panel array on the new Equipment Barn roof. In order to receive the funding, we must raise a matching $30,000—and we need your help to do it!

It's Felix Neck's 50th anniversary, and we're celebrating with a full year of fun, unique events! Join us in honoring and reflecting on the sanctuary's five decades of work inspiring nature heroes.

Summer 2019 was an incredible season for Felix Neck's Osprey, Atlantic Horseshoe Crab, breeding shorebirds, odonate, and salamander citizen science projects! Over 40 individuals trekked through woods and across beaches to collect the data needed for the conservation and management of these iconic Vineyard species. 

We're beyond thrilled to announce that Felix Neck opened Mass Audubon's fifth nature preschool on September 3!

Sanctuary Director Suzan Bellincampi has published her second book, The Nature of Martha's Vineyard—a collection of nature essays that gathers the best of the nature columns she's penned over more than 16 years. 

Unlike Monarchs or Ospreys, summer visitors come to the Island for a myriad of reasons. But our camp counselors all come to Felix Neck for one reason—to educate campers about the magic of the natural world.

We recently spoke with three high school students from our Student Leadership Committee to learn a little more about the planning process for our first-ever Youth Climate Summit taking place on May 24.

Your house is incredibly biodiverse, with thousands of species of microbes, molds, spiders, and insects sharing your space. To put it simply, you are running a biodiversity boardinghouse. But there's good news—according to Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn, not all of this is bad news.