{"id":5535,"date":"2010-03-21T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2010-03-21T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:01:05","slug":"theyre-back-piping-plover-pair-sighted-on-buzzards-bay-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5535","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They&#8217;re Back!!&#8221; &#8212; Piping Plover Pair Sighted on Buzzards Bay Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5542\" title=\"piping plover 21 Mar 2010 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"piping plover 21 Mar 2010 001 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-001-480-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Piping Plover\u00c2\u00a0(<em>Charadrius melodus<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0in Westport, MA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Whether for good or for evil, whether to cheers or to jeers, piping plovers have returned to our Southeast Massachusetts shores.\u00c2\u00a0 We spotted a pair of piping plovers (<em>Charadrius melodus<\/em>) in adult breeding plumage in Westport this Sunday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-004-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5540\" title=\"piping plover 21 Mar 2010 004 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-004-480.jpg\" alt=\"piping plover 21 Mar 2010 004 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-004-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-004-480-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Piping Plover Foraging\u00c2\u00a0in Ebbing Channel near Allens Pond<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The pair foraged the flats and channels\u00c2\u00a0between Allens Pond and Buzzards Bay as the tide receded.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-003.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5541\" title=\"piping plover 21 Mar 2010 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"piping plover 21 Mar 2010 003 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-003-480-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Piping Plover Scurries Across Buzzards Bay Beach<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">This isolated stretch of beach is not easily accessible and should provide a quiet area for breeding.\u00c2\u00a0 We did, however, detect numerous predator tracks\u00c2\u00a0scouring the beach between water and wrack line in\u00c2\u00a0focused search for prey.\u00c2\u00a0 Predator digs dotted the sandy\u00c2\u00a0upland\u00c2\u00a0wedged between bay and salt water pond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-008.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5536\" title=\"piping plover 21 Mar 2010 008 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-008-480.jpg\" alt=\"piping plover 21 Mar 2010 008 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-008-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/piping-plover-21-Mar-2010-008-480-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Area Closure Sign\u00c2\u00a0Found in Storm Wrack<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Right\u00c2\u00a0behind the beach where the plover pair foraged, we found a half dozen &#8220;AREA CLOSED&#8221; signs that had washed up into the storm wrack line.\u00c2\u00a0 Presumably these plovers had returned to\u00c2\u00a0the precise\u00c2\u00a0closure area where they had previously nested, or stranger still, perhaps they can read!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piping Plover\u00c2\u00a0(Charadrius melodus)\u00c2\u00a0in Westport, MA Whether for good or for evil, whether to cheers or to jeers, piping plovers have returned to our Southeast Massachusetts shores.\u00c2\u00a0 We spotted a pair of piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) in adult breeding plumage in Westport this Sunday afternoon. Piping Plover Foraging\u00c2\u00a0in Ebbing Channel near Allens Pond The pair foraged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[654],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5559,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}