France and the United Kingdom agreed to support Poland and in August of 1939, German troops began to gather on the Polish border. By September 1st, Germany launched an invasion of Poland. 16.
Plum Island sits in Long Island Sound, one end pointing toward the Connecticut coast and the other toward Long Island's North Fork. By ferry, it is over an hour from either shore. An old lighthouse seems to invite tourists but no outsiders are allowed on the secured facility.
There were also 27 pairs of Double-crested Cormorants. Plum Gut, between Orient Point and Plum Island, is a nutrient-rich upwelling that is an important feeding area for Roseate and Common Terns from the nearby Great Gull Island colony. Ospreys nest and forage in the marshes here, and the area is an important waterfowl wintering