This photo of a Piping Plover along the wrack line in Connecticut was taken in April 2020 before any nesting was occurring. Most of the media I take for our focal species tends to come primarily outside of any nesting period, and not when the birds are running around with hatchlings and fledglings. Even we as caring monitors and staff with years or decades of experience are still a disturbance, and we ask everyone to please keep this in mind.
What I wanted to focus on here was the food in the air! Piping Plovers devour all sorts of invertebrates along the shore. In this case you can see it targeting flies - the same flies humans often complain about. We should be grateful to these great little shorebirds, and we should leave the wrack in place as we share the shore with our helpful friends.
Scott Kruitbosch
AAfCW Volunteer Coordinator
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