“It was nice doing plover survey again– it was nice to have sun again.  Tuesday was very windy and lots of kestrels

hunting on the beach (I counted at least 10– at times, it seemed that there were more kestrels than plovers on the beach); and the plovers were hunkered down.  I didn’t get a good count on Tuesday, so redid the survey on Friday.”

“Tuesday: 6 pairs & 11 adults.  Most plovers were hunkered down and not moving.”

“Friday: 16 pairs & 6 adults.  This was more like Lauren’t survey from 2 weeks ago.  Birds are still moving around, but most seemed to have established territory.  1 pair was acting very defensive, and very close to nesting.   About 11 pairs seem to have established territories, and some even had scrapes.”

“There was 1 plover hanging out at the northern closed boundary.”

“I’ve merged the last 4 surveys into this report to better pick out the established territories.”

“Shorebirds, ducks (teal, gadwalls)

showing up on the Refuge.”

“Kiah will be starting work on Monday, and will be the next plover survey!”