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August 23, 1984 - The First Signs of FallAugust 23, 1984' H & R BLOCK TO HOST TAX SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE AT 9 SUFFOLK LOCATIONS This Saturday, August 25, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., H &R Block invites all those interested in learning more about its tax schools to visit the nearest class location. The open house provides interested men and women the opportunity to learn about income tax preparation, meet course instructors, inspect course books, and ask tax questions. One free set of course books will be presented as a door prize at each lucation. Open house will be held at all of the following H &R Block class locations: 40 East Suffolk Ave., Central Islip; 290 Larkfield Road, East Northport; 1555 New York Ave., Huntington Station; 280 North Wellwood Ave., Lindenhurst; 226 Medford Ave., Patchogue; 429 Hawkins Ave., Ronkonkoma; 885 Old Country Road, Riverhead; 450 William Floyd Parkway, Shirley and 42 Jagger Lane, Southampton. Phone 261 -1154. 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Particularly in the Great South Bay and the Long Island Sound area, they seem to be at home searching the waters for their "daily bread." The First Signs of Fall Finally the weather has broken and the weeks of hot, humid, cloudy days have gone. We were aboard our boat and in one great swoop of thun- derstorms and rain, the wind shifted to the north and cooled the air off, chang- ing everything. As a matter of fact, the coolness reminded us all too well what lies just a few months away. There were signs of fall approaching as we sailed along by the great strings of cormorants that were heading south. These gangly looking duck -like birds were probably the young that were reared on the rocky shores to the north of us. Years ago when our kids were smaller and we camped during the sum- mer, we once stopped at a place called Antigonish in Nova Scotia. Here we climbed up in back of some sheer rock cliffs and peered down over the edge where in every possible nook and cranny a cormorant had nested. It was here I realized that what I had taken for clumsy, unwieldy birds in flight proved to be exquisite aerialists. A gale was blowing on shore and these birds would come in from fishing at sea and maneuver in the turbulence of the cliffs and somehow make a perfect landing each time. Cormorants do not nest on Long Is- land proper, although we often see them sitting about on rocks and fish nets and swimming in our waters. Where a few have nested for many years is on the rocky northern edges of Fishers Island. Then three years ago they started nesting on Gardiners Island on a small island in Home Pond. Now that small island that was once green and had six or eight trees on it is solid bird nests. They are there by the hundreds and the excretion from this nesting mass has killed all the plant life, including the trees, and the entire area is completely whitewashed. These birds are expert divers and seem to spend as much time under the water as they do above. They would probably spend even more time in the water if it wasn't for the fact that they do not have oil in their feathers like most duck do. As a matter of fact, they get so water soaked that they have to come up from their food gathering exploits to dry off. Like the anhingas we see down south in the back water, they sit on a stump; rock or any other protrusion and spread their wings to dry. It's like hanging out the laundry and it's quite a comical sight to see- - they look like a wet cat if you've ever seen one of them. Just as the cormorants have moved q@(,F1flW) ao Dfl nQmTg into our area in recent years, so has the laughing gull. We're in Newport, R.I., right now and all along the way we have seen more of these gulls, I think, than we've seen of the common herring gull. It's only a guess, but I believe in time they'll be nesting up here and be as com- mon as our own gulls. I'm told they are nesting already at Jamaica Bay. Many of our herring gulls live on man's garbage, which can be from a careless picnicker to our town dump. While from what I've seen the laughing gull spends most of its time off shore picking its food from the sea. This white bird with its jet black head and trim floating position in the water will make an added attraction to our gull popula- tion in time. Many misidentify this bird because it is in its juvenile state. We stopped in many harbors on our way north: Sterling Harbor, Coecles Harbor, Sag Harbor, Three Mile Har- bor, West Harbor on Fishers Island, Mattituck Inlet, Duck Island and Stonington in Connecticut, Point Judith and now Newport. In each of these there are the freeloaders of the bird population. If it wasn't the swans and their family looking for a handout, it was a family of ducks or as we all know the real masterof scavenging, the herring gull. Last night one sat on the end of our dinghy as it bobbed up and down behind us. Thank goodness it was facing for- ward. It sat there waiting for its free tidbit, which we obliged by offering the remains of a fresh bluefish dinner. I caught this fish while sailing into Point Judith. This harbor of refuge has been good to us for each time we've moored, we've been able to catch some sort of fish just off shore. Last time it was fresh mackerel that provided our seafood din- ner. Generally speaking the sea has been good to me in many ways. It spared me years ago when I was in the service and it has provided me with a rich under- standing of the sea world about us. And, of course, it has fed me and my family endless times and above all it has pro- vided my family and me a place on which to travel and see the world from a different perspective.