Today, 7 April 2011, while doing our usual monitoring of the Piping Plovers at the Milford Point spit, we saw 7-9 PPs, including the pair of males in this video. They seem to be performing parallel running, the behavior usually seen after nests have been established by nesting neighbors to demarcate their territories' bondaries. Courtship behavior and territorial charging both in evidence today. (Note: many (250) Bonaparte Gulls on other sandbars; 3 pair of American Oystercatchers; a pair of Horned Larks on the spit. N. Gannets diving, RB Mergs displaying.)
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