Here are 3 photos of some chicks (and one adult) from the Milford Point spit on 23 July 2010. A cool (70 degrees) morning at high tide had 7 chicks/fledglings in a group with a single adult tending. One of the photos shows a chick facing the camera from under the brooding mother's tail, and another chick is barely visible under her right wing. We could not determine if these chicks had yet fledged. We had a total of about 15 Piping Plover on the spit and Cedar Beach today, down from 30-35 a week ago when they were staging on the spit.
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