The Four Corners

Friends of Angle Fly invite you to join them at Angle Fly Preserve on Sunday, June 14. for their next work day.

Wondering just how common deer have gotten in Westchester County? A doe ran onto the field during a high school baseball game in Dobbs Ferry yesterday.

Residents of Usonia, the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired community in Mount Pleasant, are unhappy with plans by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to fell dozens of pines as part of a project to improve qater quality in tributary of the Kensico Reservoir, the Journal News reports.

Vi Patek, leader of the Lewisboro Land Trust Walking Group, has enlisted Westchester Land Trust's Damon Oscarson to lead a walk of the Leon Levy Preserve on Friday, April 3, at 1 p.m.

Accipiters - hawks that hunt and eat other birds - are well-known for staking out bird feeders in winter and picking off chickadees, titmice, nuthatches and other small prey: we feed the small birds sunflower seeds, and the small birds become food for the bigger birds.

Our friend Jim Nordgren has been named the first executive director in the 95-year history of Bedford Audubon. Jim is a member of Westchester Land Trust's Advisory Board. He and his wife, Peggy, also donated a conservation easement on their land in South Salem, and Jim was instrumental in efforts to buy and protect the Old Field Preserve and the Leon Levy Preserve.

We visited a neighbor the other day who we are hoping will become a supporter of Westchester Land Trust. He showed us around his property and, as we were walking among some trees, told us of his plans to put up spotlights - up-lights, I think he called them - to illuminate his maples and oaks at night. I thought: But wouldn't it be nicer if it were dark some of the time? Do we need to brighten everything? It's hard enough to see the stars as it is.

Sterling Forest, the 15,000-acre state park across the river in Orange and Rockland counties, turns 10 years old this fall, and a celebration is planned for Sunday.

You don't have to live in Lewisboro to be part of Vi Patek's Lewisboro Land Trust walking group. Vi leads walks through preserves in town throughout the year. The next on is Saturday, July 26, at 9 a.m., at the Old Field Preserve, on Mead Street, Waccabuc.

Ryder Farm, one of the oldest farms in the region (it's been in the same family for almost 200 years), sits on the west shore of Peach Lake, just above the North Salem border, in Southeast. Although it's in Putnam County, it's close enough and important enough for us to do what we can to help protect it.