Silver Sands Piping Plover, 2 chicks, 2 adults 6/26/11

According to lifeguard reports, 3 chicks were first observed on 25 June 11. Monitors could not find them today on a very crowded beach, but here they are around 7:30 PM when most people have left the beach. The family of 2 chicks and 2 adults was back within the symbolic stringing next to the lifeguard stand, but they were foraging all over, esp at the water's edge and the wrack straw.

Here's a brief video of the chicks taking shelter under an adult around 7:30 PM (sun to set around 8:30); also. a video of an adult and a chick as the chick forages.