Regional News

Red-bellied Woodpecker © Gerry Farquharson

Join us this fall and winter for sociable and educational bird talks! Warm beverages and sweet treats will be provided. Next program is February 14.

Our late summer predictions of a busy fall season came true. Wellfleet Bay volunteers and staff rescued or recovered more than 800 cold-stunned sea turtles this year—our second biggest season ever. Updated January 7.

Registration is now open for our Summer Camps in Wellfleet and Chatham! We’re looking forward to sunshine, summertime, and days filled with adventure in the great outdoors.

Fourth graders from Harwich and Chatham are taking part in a one-year curriculum that combines in-class lessons with real field experiences and a chance to watch bird researchers at work—all thanks to a new Wellfleet Bay program.

© Ceraldi

This year’s Wild, Wild Wellfleet! fundraiser was a sold-out event and, truly, a wild success! We'd like to extend our most sincere thanks to everyone who made the chef's tasting and auction possible. 

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. 

As part of a new partnership between Mass Audubon and UMass Boston, 12 high school students from Boston schools who are participating in the Urban Scholars Program visited the UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station to meet with local scientists and environmentalists. 

Registration is now open for Fern & Feather Day Camp in Edgartown! We’re looking forward to sunshine, summertime, and days filled with adventure in the great outdoors. 

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. 

Raccoon tracks © Rosemary Mosco

In the winter months, when animal activity seems to be down, you can often find signs of the few animals that remain active on Martha’s Vineyard this time of year—especially in freshly fallen snow. 

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Felix Neck Sanctuary Director Suzan Bellincampi recently 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. 

Rachel Kingsley

This summer, the sanctuary hosted a special crop of returning camp counselors, Leaders-in-Training, interns, and volunteers. We asked a few of them what makes them tick, why they come to Felix Neck, and what they hope to accomplish, and their answers inspired us.

Summer 2018 was an incredible season for the monitoring of our local shorebird, Osprey, and horseshoe crab populations—both in the numbers of these animals recorded as well as in the turnout of dedicated and eager volunteers who led the charge. 

It was a historic year for Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary. Early 2017 brought the end of a very quick—and successful—fundraising campaign that enabled construction to start on the sanctuary’s first new building in 50 years.