Up in the air, it's a bird...

Birdwatching on Nantucket has many year-round participants. Birding groups roam the island several times weekly with binoculars in hand and ears cocked for familiar and new avian sounds.

Birding Nantucket takes groups aged from their teens to retirees into woods, fields, and bogs then reports their sitings on their Facebook page. In a recent post on Facebook you'll learn how to distinguish crows from ravens, for now and evermore. Or join local ornithologist and lifelong expert birder Ginger Andrews, at 6:30 am Friday at Maria Mitchell Association, for a trip to the fields and marshes of Nantucket.