Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary

2008

November 27, 2008

Felix Neck Fall Festival Is Annual Way to Walk Off Holiday Dinner

Mark Alan Lovewell
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary

Today is fall festival, a traditional celebration at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Edgartown. Every year since 1980, the sanctuary has held a day-after Thanksgiving event which brings together strangers and friends, young and old to sip hot cider and participate in an array of family-friendly activities.

While other people are busy shopping and scurrying about with holiday errands, at Felix Neck there is a different kind of tradition for those who want to get outdoors and work off some of that turkey dinner.

July 3, 2008
paddles

Kayakers Get an Intimate View Of Sengekontacket Pond’s Beauty

Alexander Trowbridge
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Sengekontacket Pond
Horseshoe crabs
Kayaking

Leading a tour of the Sengekontacket, Felix Neck guide Emily Smith rounded Sarsons Island Friday in her red kayak and stopped. Something in the pond had caught her eye. She backtracked, peered into the water for a few moments and then pulled out a horseshoe crab. The kayakers on the tour crowded around for a look, bumping their boats together as they packed in. She flipped the crab over to show its small legs squirming in the air and began spelling out facts about the creature.

2005

October 20, 2005

Augustus Ben David Will Retire from Felix Neck After 36 Years

Max Hart
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Gus Ben David

Spending time with Augustus (Gus) Ben David 2nd at the World of
Reptiles is a learning experience from start to finish.

But it is in the snake room, in the basement of his home in
Edgartown, surrounded by over a hundred feet of slithering reptiles
locked in wooden cages, where Mr. Ben David is in his element.

2003

March 13, 2003

Felix Neck Land Purchase Protects Eastern Flank of Nature Conservancy

Julia Wells
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Conservation
Gus Ben David

The Martha's Vineyard Land Bank, the Felix Neck Wildlife Trust and the Massachusetts Audubon Society closed on a land purchase last week that will protect the last key piece of undeveloped land at Felix Neck.

2002

July 8, 2002

Felix Neck, Land Bank and Audubon Buy Moffet Land to Preserve Sanctuary Borders

Julia Wells
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Conservation
Martha's Vineyard Land Bank
Gus Ben David

In a three-way partnership that will protect the last key piece of undeveloped land at one of the oldest wildlife sanctuaries on the Vineyard, the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank, the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Felix Neck Wildlife Trust announced yesterday that they will buy 34 acres from Lucia Moffet for $2.55 million.

The Moffet property runs along the entire length of the entrance road to the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on the eastern side.

1968

December 13, 1968

Felix Neck, Gift to Mass. Audubon, Will be Preserve

Vineyard Gazette
Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Conservation
George M. Moffett Jr., widely known as a yachtsman and conservationist, signed an agreement last week by which Felix Neck, more than 200 beautiful acres of widely varying terrain extending into Sengekontacket Pond, will be conveyed to the Massachusetts Audubon Society as a wildlife sanctuary. Part of the acreage is transferred immediately, and the balance will be leased to the Audubon Society until the gift is completed.
 

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