Thursday, June 16, 2011

Piping Plovers at Mlf Pt 16 June 11

Storms on 9 June and subsequent rain and high tides have washed out at least 4 nests of 4 eggs each on the Milford Pt spit and adjacent Cedar Beach. But today on my usual monitoring rounds I found one adult tending 4 chicks and another tending 2 chicks. Also, at least 8 more adults look to be thinking of renesting. One video shows a male performing symbolic scraping; the other video shows one of the two-chick group with an adult piping to it. Other adults were courting and chasing, but I did not witness any copulation. If these Piping Plover do renest they will be around until the last two weeks of August.

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