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Deer
Isle is a spectacular island community of 24,000 acres and
112 miles of shoreline, comprising the towns of Deer Isle
and Stonington and outlying islands.
The Island Heritage Trust is a non-profit private land trust
dedicated to conservation that protects significant open
space, scenic areas, wildlife habitats, natural resources,
and historic and cultural features that offer public benefit
and are essential to the character of the Deer Isle area.
For
20 years Island Heritage Trust has been celebrating our
natural heritage.
Are you interested in becoming the next Executive Director of IHT? Details of our job search.
Are you looking to welcome back our migrating birds? Visit Wings, Waves and Woods for a schedule of activities around the Island for the weekend of May 16-18.
Is it lupines that have you longing? Visit Lupine Festival for the schedule of events June 21-22.
But if it's the Salamander Big Night you're looking for, you can read all about it in Beads and String, the chapter about April at Settlement Quarry.
 
Check the Biodiversity Research Institute's live eagle cam "somewhere on the coast of Maine" at www.briloon.org.
Around Deer Isle:
On March 4 two adult bald eagles were seen carrying sticks to Second Island, and on March 17 the Carney Island eagles were seen rearranging their nest off Causeway Beach. By March 19, both the Second and Carney eagles seemed to be incubating the first egg. In the last week of April both nests hatched eggs, and parents have been observed feeding their young.
Inland Fish & Wildlife’s endangered species biologist Charlie Todd flew over most of Deer Isle in a small plane in April and confirmed that eagles were indeed incubating on Carney and Second Island. There was a pair of eagles perched in the middle of Scraggy Island, about 50 yards west of a nest which he described as a great looking nest from the air, supported largely by a dense witches broom growth which might mask its appearance from underneath. At the time there was still no nest on Bradbury, but the nest next door on Crow Island was active. The "old" nest that eagles once borrowed from ospreys on Campbell Island was vacant, but the eagles were using the new one on the small islet to the west.
The band on an eagle found dead on a beach in Sunset identifies the bird as a seventeen year old from across the bay at Beach Island, off North Haven. A bald eagle may live some twenty-five years or more, but this one was not quite that lucky. Charlie Todd does say that the eagles here seem to know how lucky they are to have Island Heritage Trust lands. Many of the nest sites are islands owned by the Trust or otherwise protected. Much of the territory the eagles use also enjoys some protection from the Trust, either as or protected by conservation easement.
Island
Heritage Trust
420 Sunset Road ~ Deer Isle, Maine
Mail: P.O. Box 42 / Deer Isle, ME 04627
Phone: 207-348-2455
FAX: 207-348-2989
E-mail: islandheritagetrust@verizon.net
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