Can you spot the Piping Plover in this photo? And the second one, too? It is rather "easy" because they're focused on, but many beachgoers would never be able to spot them even several feet away - especially if they were tiny hatchlings hiding in the sand!
These hatchlings need a lot of space, and if you see mom and dad running around with them, calling and dashing about, you should continue to keep a very safe distance away. It is tempting to want to pursue and photograph them but this becomes a dangerous activity without a very long lens and extreme care. Thank you all for your dedication to our birds, and thanks in advance to everyone who has decided to #ShareTheShore in 2019.
I was just walking at Long Beach and I saw 8 piping plover hatchlings running around and to oystercatchers hatchlings. I stayed my distance and looked carefully but some people were just walking without looking where they were going made me a little nervous. Especially since two of the hatchlings and the parents were right at the first jetty by the parking lot and people were just walking around not being careful.
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