The Ocean Views are currently unavailable. We are working on this issue and hope to have them available shortly. Please check back. Spring Projects - 06/04/05 Like many entities, the Ocean View Foundation has several spring projects that are done in anticipation of the season. the nesting season, the growing season, and yes, the visitor season.... Read the Article Heroes: We Walk Among Them Every Day - 05/02/05 J. Sterling Morton, Harriet Hemenway and Mirna Hall, John McConnell and Gaylord Nelson: ever hear of them? They're superheroes. How about Elizabeth Dickens, Rachel Carson, and Johnny Appleseed? They were all heroes.... Read the Article Visit to Mystic Aquarium - 03/07/05 Guest Authors: Lydia Mott and Zoe Sanford On Feb. 24, 2005, a small group of islanders took a trip to the Mystic Aquarium. The small group was made up of 15 people, some adult and some children.... Read the Article Cardinal Winter - 02/14/05 It has been a cardinal winter, in all aspects of the phrase. The essentials of a Block Island winter include cold temperatures, snow, a prevailing wind and a gloom that makes the cold colder... Read the Article Winter Birds and Hearty Birders - 01/10/05 “Few and far between” is the phrase that epitomizes the number of birds that were seen during the 2004 Community Bird Count. Even so, hearty birders, like their avian counterparts, sought out the lee spots of the island... Read the Article Citizen Scientists - 12/20/04 You too can be a citizen scientist: part of the growing legion of individuals with an interest - even passion - in some realm of the natural world. Over the centuries, volumes of natural history information have been observed... Read the Article Monarch Butterfly Tagging - 11/15/04 Amazingly we are fast approaching late fall, and for those of us who are “nature watchers” — probably everyone on Block Island — we find ourselves between the dramatic fall songbird migration and the annual arrival of seals on our shores... Read the Article Hope is the Thing with Feathers - 05/15/04 It is spring migration time, and bluebird nesting boxes have been popping up all over the island. Perhaps you've seen one? The birth of the boxes began as a casual neighborly conversation... Read the Article The Christmas Bird Census - 12/20/03 When it comes to birdwatching, counting is inevitable. There are bird-a-thons, feeder watches, breeding-bird censuses, bird-banding programs, life lists and Christmas bird counts... Read the Article Limits - 08/24/02 Many of us start our day with a great desire for coffee - or tea, juice, chocolate milk, Gatorade, Perrier - you name your poison. The need for our morning beverage-of-choice may seem imperative... Read the Article Ocean View Foundation Connecting People and Nature