Eagle Dock Environmental Education Program

08/07/2026

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation said it is investigating what one resident said were "thousands" of dead fish.

08/05/2026

The Joint Eagle Dock North Shore Land Alliance Kayaking Event! We explored Cold Spring from kayaks and Paddle Boards. Twenty-six of us! In 22 kayaks or Paddle Boards. What fun! Ospreys, Ducks, Diamondback Terrapins (only a few), Semi-palmated Sandpipers, already on their way south, Canada Geese (some still molting and not flying), a friendly (at this time of year after breeding) Mute Swan or two, assorted Terns and, of course, various gulls and crows. The weather, tide and wind? Perfect! Nearly. Almost in perfect harmony for a Paddle! Thank you Peter Martin for coming along was again as our Naturalist Extraodinare! There is never a shortage of opportunities to learn something about our environment on a kayaking adventure in Cold Spring Harbor!

08/02/2026

Fledging! What does it mean? How many of us know? You might see an example of this if you were able to watch the Eagle Dock Osprey camera during the coming week but, to my chagrin, we can't. Maybe someone who knows a thing or two about streaming a YouTube channel can offer me on scene assistance. Contact me at [email protected].

07/23/2026

More photos from yesterday's banding, courtesy of Bobby Horvath and Tania Scaduto. Enjoy!

07/22/2026

What was interesting today? Well, for one thing, when Bobby was asked when these two chicks might fledge, he pointed to the lack of tail feathers on the bird he was holding and said, "at least two more weeks." That would put the fledging date at Wednesday, August 5th, one day after our upcoming Joint Kayaking Event with the North Shore Land Alliance. If that's the case, we should see a lot of practicing going on in the nest when we arrive there in our kayaks. One other interesting thing is that Tania Scaduto, a falconer and member of our Banding Team today, sighted a Bald Eagle flying above tree line west of our nest. Now, we know we have had Bald Eagles in and around Cold Spring Harbor but, as far as we know, none have nested here. We first sighted a pair on July 21, 2012, near the Teddy Roosevelt property along the west side of Cold Spring Harbor during a kayak event. Then, on November 27, 2013, I saw a Bald Eagle on our osprey nest while driving down Shore Road, a day before Thanksgiving. And that was n0t the best part, our previous camera, recorded the arrival of this bird and its mate and I was able to retrieve and save it. This video is still on my YouTube Channel at https://youtu.be/zyQdljCOnTs?si=V9vgrY4b55LeHN-p. Well, I also tried my hand at doing a pastel of this scene, a medium I was studying at the time. You can judge how well I did. I did see a Bald Eagle in the harbor one other time, on a tree near the outlet of Cold Spring Brook as it enters Cold Spring Harbor after passing over the dam near St. John's Pond but don't have a picture of that anywhere. Nevertheless, Bald Eagles have repopulated Long Island since these sightings and our breeding so it makes sense we could end up with a nesting pair of Bald Eagles in Cold Spring Habor pretty soon. So, in addition to our banding today we learned a few more things about the wildlife we have around us.

07/22/2026

We've done it again! Today we banded two more osprey chicks hatched on the nest at Eagle Dock Community Beach built on a platform erected in the winter of 2009 by friends in Nature. Led by Bobby Horvath, Wildlife Rehabilitator and Co-founder of WINORR - Wildlife Rehabilitator and Wildlife In Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation, a nonprofit that has become one of the most important wildlife rescue resources in the New York City, Nassau, and western Suffolk Co, Tania Scaduto and Donald Niddrie, with help from employees of Eagle Dock, Ethan, Matt and Jackson, these now tagged birds, will be recorded in the database of the Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL), which part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Watch and follow here for more photos and videos and on the Eagle Dock Osprey FB page to get a closer view of what it takes to accomplish this important wildlife mission of EDEEP, the Eagle Dock Foundation and the USGS.

06/25/2026

06/24/2026

What's on my mind? The environment of course! And biodiversity. Do you know what biodiversity means? Well, let me bring you something that may help, a YouTube documentary about the great Hudson Valley and the incredible biodiversity within it. https://youtu.be/w_2LiaAzZUs?is=1hX750HFmn3yZaxh This half hour video is worth watching for all of those like me that care about nature, what it has to offer and why we must learn about it in order to protect it wisely.

An ode to the remarkable variety of life in the Hudson River estuar...

06/17/2026

Well, after a long stint without the benefit of following the life journey of our Eagle Dock Osprey pair, we are once again able to announce that our camera is live and focused on the pair of ospreys that arrived on the Eagle Dock nest back in late March 2026. Join the fun of watching these osprey as they raise their chicks, at least two which we discovered this morning when we went live again. Go to Eagle Dock Live Osprey Cam on YouTube and subscribe to our channel. You will learn about these incredible creatures!

03/30/2026

I'm happy as a clam this morning to see that our ospreys have returned!