These are all photos I have taken by the lakeshore in the last month or so.  I have taken all of them out the window of my car, as to not disturb the owls.   There are at least two owls down there.   One of them likes to hang out by the side of the road, so it can be pretty easy to spot.

Windy afternoon ‘do!

It is sometimes there in the middle of the day, sleeping!

noon nap

I often see it hunting from a fencepost in late afternoon.

Searching for prey as the sun goes down

Dive bomb!

I have seen Barred Owls catching voles in this field.   They will also eat any small or medium sized rodent, rabbits, crayfish, and frogs.

Where’s Waldo

The other owl is a lot harder to find, as it sleeps at the edges of the woods, far in from the road.   I think I have seen it flying around at dusk as well.

Barred owls will be courting and finding nests this month.   Perhaps these two will meet up!

All the best!

Leslie

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Eastern Comma

A butterfly? In March? In the woods?   For sure.  Friday was sunny and relatively warm in the sugar bush near my house. These Eastern Comma butterflies actually have anti-freeze in their blood. They are able to survive over winter by crawling into cavities and under logs where it isn’t quite as cold, and can potentially come back to life out of dormancy when the temperatures rise. As no flowers are blooming yet, they drink sap for energy.   The sugar bush is a perfect place for them.

Barred Owl

An owl! Finally! Yesterday I got to watch this Barred Owl hunting.    I have heard the odd “hoot” in the sugar bush over the past week or so, and I know there is a pair of them in there.   As you know if you have been reading my blog, there have been owls in the sugar bush for years, and I have even seen them raise 3 broods of owlets.  But this year the owls are quiet, and I have not seen one until yesterday.

Initially the owl was at the side of the road, but it flew into the forest where it was mobbed by angry chickadees and nuthatches. They even dove right at its head. The owl’s strategy is just to ignore them until they go away, which works. I sat on a log and watched the owl as it surveyed the forest floor below.

Owls always spot me before I spot them

There is nothing like finding an owl to make my breath slow down and my focus awaken. The outside world just fades away. I normally can’t sit still and focus for more than a few minutes, but when I encounter an owl, everything stops. I feel like I am being treated to a slice of magic.

Descending to the forest floor

I have never seen an owl hunt like this before, though I know it happens. It flew to a sloping branch and then walked down to the edge of a vernal pool- still frozen over with ice except for the very edge. There it sat for quite some time, fixated on the thin line of water between the ice and the forest floor.  I believe it was hunting for frogs.  Around here the frogs will just be awakening to sing their spring songs.   Any day now we will begin to hear them at night.   The owl must know that this is a prime time and place to nab the frogs.

Hunting at the ice edge

Uncropped photo – find the owl

Owls are the epitome of patience and stillness. They just wait, and watch.

Camouflage

Look at that camouflage! Who would ever know it was there?

Does this owl have a mate? Will they nest and raise another brood? Time will tell. I’ll continue to watch and listen, as I have lots of time to spend in the woods these days.

Take care, my friends, and if you can-  look and listen for the signs of spring.  Open your window, sit on your porch, go for a walk, or even sit for awhile in the woods.

If you’d like a little dose of cuteness, here’s three years of Barred Owl babies:

2016

2015

2014

All the best!  Hang in there!   Leslie

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Each year I devote one entire day to birdwatching – I line it up with the Global Big Day – where people all over the world go out one day in early May and locate as many  birds as they can in a 24 hour period.    The birds are recorded in the eBird database, run by the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology.   This year, that day in early May just served to get my birding obsession all fired up again for the spring.

Mute Swan resting in her nest.

May 4 this year was cold, cloudy, and windy and I spent most of the day bundled up in my fleecy. I started out my day before sunrise, and was able to hear some night singers such as Whip-poor-wills, Woodcocks, and Turkeys. I spent an early breakfast watching my feeders, then headed out to my usual haunts- Presqu’ile Park and Brighton Constructed Wetlands.

Yellow Rumped Warbler

Many typical spring birds such as Grey Catbirds, Baltimore Orioles, and Hummingbirds, were not back yet, but a few warblers were starting to trickle in.

Yellow Warbler

These little jewels are a highlight of migration for me. When I am doing a birding Big Day, the morning always moves along quite well, and I can rack up quite a few species in a short amount of time. For example, I heard and saw almost 50 different species of birds before I even left my house on that Saturday morning. Typically, the afternoon birds come much more slowly. I drove around looking for an American Kestrel that always sits on a certain telephone wire. Found it. I was thinking- Ospreys are back- where can I go to find one?

Osprey on my road

And as day turned into evening and I headed home to look for Ruffed Grouse, there was an Osprey sitting up in a tree at the side of my road. Never seen one on my road in all the time I have lived here, but there it was.

Bathing on the beach

I finished up my day with the gulls and terns down at the beach at Presqu’ile, where the sun peeked out for a bit before going down. All told, I found 95 species of birds on May 4. This is right around my average for the past 4 years- the bird count always hovers around 100.

Least Flycatcher

Guess what!? The next morning I got up really early, drove down to Prince Edward County, picked up a friend and her dad, and went birding at Prince Edward Point Bird observatory. This IBA (Important Birding Area) is a peninsula on the southeast side of Prince Edward County, and since it is an hour south of here, they are a bit ahead of us as far as seeing newly arrived species. There were quite a few flycatchers, like the one above.

Grey Catbird

They also had Grey Catbirds – who really say “meow” at the end of their calls. This is a common spring bird here who was conspicuously missing from my “Big Day” list. Despite their plain appearance, catbirds are feisty songsters, who mimic other birds calls and can produce a symphony of slightly buzzy imitations to impress their potential mates. Love them.

Cliff Swallows gathering mud for their nests

Home sweet home! So cute!

We were treated to the sight of dozens of Cliff Swallows building their nests, squeaking and congregating around a large mud puddle.

Eastern Towhee

The constant call of “drink your teeeeeee” told us that there were Eastern Towhees in the undergrowth. Towhees are members of the sparrow family, with round bodies and lovely rusty red, white, and black colouring.  Prince Edward Point did not disappoint, and it was fun to share my day with friends.

Cutleaf toothwort

I finished off the week with a Mother’s Day weekend in Dundas with my daughter and her boyfriend. When we weren’t at the Hamilton Buttertart Festival or eating tacos, we spent time on the Royal Botanical Garden trails, where the wildflowers were in bloom, and the birds were singing their hearts out.

Tree Swallows making a home

The RBG had some open fields with nest boxes, being used by Swallows, Bluebirds, and Wrens.

Downy Woodpecker

There were also magical wooded areas where the leaves were just beginning to emerge. On one little path we discovered a woman feeding a Downy Woodpecker peanuts from her hand! I have heard of feeding chickadees before, but never woodpeckers! A little boy and his mom were walking by and he got to feed the woodpecker from his hand too. He was thrilled.

At the same time, two beautiful deer grazed peacefully in the woods just in front of us.

“Bald Eagle” Sure. It is!

Once out of the woods we were treated to the view over a beautiful marshland at the far western end of Lake Ontario. There was a Bald Eagle near its nest and flying around. Sooo cool! Eagle was far away and backlit so it just looks like a blob haha. But if you look at the exact centre of this photo you can see the eagle’s nest- an impressively huge structure anchored in a pine tree.

Cormorant Island

Much easier to photograph were the Double Crested Cormorants inhabiting a tiny island out in the lake. Their poop kills all vegetation, as you can see.

Red Bellied Woodpecker

Back in the woods, we were treated to the sight of a Red Bellied Woodpecker working on a nest in a tree hole.

Magnolias

To cap off a lovely day, we entered a fairy tale meadow full of magnolia trees in full bloom.

Birding is so much more than birding, really.  It’s being outside, discovering what’s there, and spending time with family and friends, or some quiet time to myself.

May is not over yet.  I’m still birding!

Thanks for visiting my blog. Enjoy the spring!

Leslie

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First Snowy Owl of the Season

Last weekend I started the day out with a hike to Gull Island, at Presqu’ile Park.   On my way through the woods I scared up a Great Horned Owl!   No photos as we were both very surprised.   What a beautiful bird.   And huge..   After my crossing to Gull Island I found the first Snowy I have seen this fall.   He was very very sleepy from his journey south.   Who knows if this will be another big year for Snowy Owls in our part of Ontario.   Time will tell.

Barred Owl

Now that the leaves are off the trees it is a lot easier to see the resident Barred Owls at the park, which I did as I was driving to get coffee and rum cake at the annual Christmas at Presqu’ile event.    So many people whipped past me on the road and passed this owl by. The trick to noticing wildlife is to drive annoyingly slowly.

Snowy Owl

My next stop was Amherst Island- how could I resist. I thought the owling might be good over there because as soon as I stepped out of the car I noticed little voles skittering all over the place- rustling through the grass, little dark grey shapes running across my path. Well sure enough, I saw a few more snowies, some closer, some far away.

Typical Snowy Owl scene. Far away. In sheep field. On fence post.

Northern Saw Whet Owl

Next a very nice woman showed me where a little Saw Whet Owl was sleeping. This absolutely made my day. These little cuties are as big as your hand. Incredibly well camouflaged. Oh my goodness.

Also sleepy

Barred Owl at sunset

I ended my day there by spotting a Barred Owl hunting by the side of a dirt road. The second of the day.   9th owl, of 4 species.  Right place, right time? This time, you bet.

Thanks for visiting.

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These photos were all taken on my property, or just across the street in the field.

You may have noticed a lot of birds passing through lately.   Believe it or not, birds are already beginning their southward movement.    That takes a lot of energy, which means eating as much as they can right now!

We share our blueberries with the robins.

There are also a lot of baby birds around- birds that have grown up in our area and are now fattening up for their first journey south.     Let me introduce you to some of the visitors to our garden.

Unbelievably cute baby Eastern Bluebird

Although the bluebird boxes on our property did not end up housing any little families of bluebirds, our neighbour’s boxes did, and now the little bluebirds visit our yard for a snack, flitting down from the branches to catch insects, then back up again.

Great Crested Flycatcher

We welcome the families of flycatchers as well, who nested in a hole in a tree near our house.

Blue winged warbler

Local birders know that if they want a guaranteed sighting of a Blue Winged Warbler, they need only visit my neighbourhood in the summer.   Right now, the families are stocking up on food for their journey south.

Cedar Waxwing

Our blueberry patch is definitely a hit.  Especially with the Cedar Waxwings  Luckily once our elderberries fruit, the waxwings much prefer those berries.

Feed me! Baby Catbird

The young catbirds flap their wings and literally “meow” for their food.

Baby Eastern Phoebe (I think)

I’m pretty sure this is one of the baby phoebes who grew up under the awning on our neighbour’s porch.   It likes to sit in the dogwood bushes in my garden and fly down to catch flying insects.

Juvenile Robin

I think the robins under our back deck must have raised 3 families this summer!

Young red Bellied Woodpecker

I’ve learned a lot too.  For example, I had no idea that woodpeckers ate berries until this year- photo evidence!

Everyone loves the blueberries.

I also never knew that chipmunks do this.   It waits on the ground for the birds to drop the berries, even though I know it is perfectly capable of climbing up into the bush.

If you want to go out and take a look to see what you will find in your neighbourhood, most bird and critter activity is early in the morning, say around 7 – 9 am.   Not too too early these days, as the mornings are darker, and chilly.

Stay tuned for my next couple of blogs- “Pollinators” will be next, and then I will have to do something with the hundreds of praying mantis pictures I have taken of my baby mantises growing up in my garden.

Thanks for visiting!

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It’s been a pretty sleepy winter around here for finding owls, and even my feeder birds have been few and far between.  So when news of visiting Great Gray Owls in my local area came to light in late February, I headed out with great excitement to try to find one of these rare and beautiful birds from the north.   Great Gray Owls make their home in the vast boreal forest, and have very little “street sense” as they are not used to people or traffic.  When they head south looking for food, they tend to set up in areas where there is good hunting, often at roadsides. This makes them pretty easy to find, and particularly vulnerable.

Here is an early morning shot of one of the owls, the first morning I saw one.   The feather patterns make for remarkable camouflage, and it would be easy to drive past.    But word spreads fast, and soon enough groups of people were gathering to watch the owls, as they were often sitting right out in the open.

Great Grays seem to be pretty aware of crows, despite their lack of knowledge about people.  Notice how this owl is all pulled in skinny in this photo because it was being harassed by crows from above.

This owl was keenly focused on movement in the ditch at the roadside.

These fields must have been rich in rodents, as I also found a Barred Owl there on the last afternoon I visited.

This owl was only a couple of steps away from the road.   I feel so privileged to have been able to see these beautiful owls and watch their fascinating behaviour, but I also began to question the human impact on these birds with so many people around.

On the third and last afternoon I visited I found out that one of the owls had been struck and killed by a car.   A man had it in the back of his car in a cooler and planned on getting it stuffed.   I heard later that a group of photographers were chasing one of the owls, trespassing on private property, and baiting the owl with live mice to get hunting and flight shots.

I haven’t been back.   If these owls are now associating humans or cars with food, they are even more vulnerable and my presence there will only further endanger them.

This situation has really caused me to ask myself a lot of ethical questions about observing and photographing birds.    The truth is, any time a human is in proximity to a wild bird, it will affect its behaviour.   But there are a couple of simple questions we need to ask ourselves as we head out birding or taking photos.

-Could my behaviour put this bird in harm’s way?  Getting closer, chasing the bird, causing it to fly, or feeding it near a roadway can all have devastating consequences, like it did here.

-What is my motivation for what I am doing right now?  Be honest with yourself and think about whether disturbing the bird is really worth it.

We all have moral and ethical “lines” that can change and evolve over time in many areas of our lives.    Why not pledge to do as little harm as possible?

I have learned that if you sit back, give the bird space, wait, and are patient,  you will be privileged to observe some fascinating natural behaviour from the bird.

That’s a win/win.

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Baby birds now?  Amazingly, yes.   While many other birds are well on their way south for the winter, American Goldfinches are still dutifully raising their babies.

“Feed me, feed me”

One of the sounds of the fall garden here at my house is the insistent “feed me, feed me” from the baby goldfinches. Listen to the calls here.  Maybe you have heard this sound around your house.

You’re not feeding me fast enough!

Why do Goldfinches wait so long to have their families?  The food and nesting material they like the best are available later in the year.

Seed eater

By late August and September, many flowers have gone to seed.   American Goldfinches are almost exclusively seed eaters, which is actually quite unique. Most birds in our area feed their young a diet full of insects.   The only time a Goldfinch will eat a bug is by mistake.

Thistle down

The soft down of thistles and milkweed is used by Goldfinches for nesting material, and they eat the seeds as well.

Collecting materials for the nest

If you take a look in fields or roadsides, you may see Goldfinches perched on top of thistles, pulling the down out for their nests.

September garden

You can attract American Goldfinches to your garden by planting flowers like purple coneflowers and black eyed susans, then letting them go to seed in the late summer.

mmmm…breakfast!

You have to be willing to let a certain amount of neatness and perfection go, and let your garden mature and go a bit wild in the late summer, but it is totally worth it.

Wildlife Garden

Before you know it, you’ll have goldfinches stopping by.

Bright yellow male

Once the goldfinches find you, they will keep coming back.

Hi

And they might even bring their babies!

Thanks for visiting my blog!   Next time, I will be writing more about the rewards of gardening for wildlife.

For more on American Goldfinches, or any other bird you may be interested in, take a look at Cornell University’s excellent All About Birds website.

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3 chicks with dad

All 3 chicks are alive and well.  They have had  lot of changes in their lives over the past couple of weeks.

Right leg orange, left leg yellow

When the chicks were a couple of weeks old,  they received identification leg bands.   All three have the same colour combination- orange on right leg and yellow on left leg.   Then they each have a silver band with its own unique ID number.

Dad brooding chick

Another big change is that they are being looked after by just the dad now.   Mom left when they were about a week and a half old.  We thought she had taken off for Florida but she has been seen at Darlington beach to the west of here.  She also returned to Presqu’ile last Wednesday but was chased off by the dad, who is claiming sole custody of the chicks at this point.

Chick getting ready to fly

Dad has a lot on his plate, as the chicks are starting to take short flights up and down the beach, and running all over the place.

Watching for flying predators

When he perceives a threat, dad calls in his distinctive “piping” call, and rushes to collect the babies near him.

Can you find 3 Plovers in this picture?

Last Saturday evening I was babysitting the plovers, and everything started out pretty quietly.  All 4 family members were resting on the beach.

Preening

A little preening, a little wing stretching and flapping, but pretty mellow.

Ahhh – nice stretch

Look at those beautiful primary feathers.

nap time

Two of the chicks stayed together, pretty sleepy. Sometimes it’s really hard to find all 3, they are so well hidden.

Perfect spot for a nap

There’s number 3.   I love this scene.  What perfect camouflage.

AH there you are

stepping out

While dad and the other chicks slept, one of the chicks ran down to the water’s edge and started to feed.    It stayed down there for about 40 minutes on its own.   This was the first time I had seen one of the chicks at the water- they usually stayed further up on the beach.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Dad did not seem too concerned.

I’m awake!

Eventually around 8:00 pm dad and the other two chicks woke up and joined the first chick down at the water’s edge.

Sundown on Presqu’lie Beach

As the sun dipped below the horizon, the 4 Piping Plovers were still feeding at the water’s edge.   In another week or so the chicks will be flying well enough to go wherever they like.   Then at some point in August, our Piping Plover family will begin to head for their winter home in Florida.

Presqu’ile Piping Plover Chick

With help from the Park staff and over 50 volunteers, the Piping Plovers have had a very successful nesting season here in Brighton.

Next May when migration is in full swing, we will all be keeping our eyes open for newly arrived Piping Plovers. Especially three young adults with an orange band on the left leg, and yellow band on the right leg.   Bon voyage little chicks!   Hope to see you in the spring.

If you are like me and can’t get enough about Piping Plovers, Check out these links:

-Watch this cute video by Anja showing the chicks at a couple of weeks old!  They are so funny!   Anja has done a great job capturing them as they scoot all over the place. More videos of the plovers on her Youtube channel: Brighton Events

-Hear an interview with Presqu’ile’s David Bree and Elizabeth Steadman on CBC Radio Morning:

– Revisit Protecting Piping Plovers :  my blog from when they were just a few days old.

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Barred owlet, about 4 weeks old.

The parents start to call loudly to each other in the sugar bush in March, just as maple syrup time is rolling full tilt.  The sugar bush is a mixed hardwood forest, with lots of sugar maples, as well as hemlocks, swampy areas, and old dead beech trees like the one they use for their nest.

Can you see the white fluff of the baby?

Timings have varied from year to year, but this year the mother sat on the eggs in the nest for the month of April, looked after the babies for a few weeks in early May with help from the dad, and then the little owls came out of the nest in late May.

First baby out!

I was quite surprised how early the owlets came out this year.   When I went into the woods for only the second time in May to check the nest, there was already an owlet out, climbing around in the hemlock tree next to the nest.

Hiding

I don’t think I would have known it was there if I hadn’t heard it quietly screeching for food, as they do all day unless they are sleeping!

owlet number 2

Owlet number two was in a tree not far away.   They always see me before I see them.

not ready to fly yet

This little one could barely keep its eyes open, and kept falling asleep.   It’s hard being a baby owl.   They don’t fly yet, and move around by climbing around in the trees using their beaks and talons.   At this stage of development they are called “branchers.”   They begin to fly short distances on their own in a couple more weeks.

Checking out the traffic.

The morning after I found the owlets, I got quite a surprise as I was walking my dog.  An owlet was sitting in a tree right by the side of the road.   Luckily our road is not very busy, and the owl was pretty high up the tree.

close up

Regardless, I got a chance to take a great look at the little owl without being in the sugar bush, which, as much as I love it, is full of biting insects.

Later in the day, the owlet had moved back into the woods.    And though I heard the little ones calling, and the parents hooting, I never saw the owlets again this year.   We went away on a trip, and when we got back the owlets would be flying around quite well on their own.

sleepy

I am so happy that our neighbourhood Barred Owls are such great parents.   We sometimes hear owls hooting as we walk, or when we sit out at night.   Not sure which ones they are, but they probably started off their lives in the sugar bush.

For more on this owl family over the years, see my posts from:

2014:
2015:

This post is brought to you by:

Papa Owl

and

Mama Owl

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Who have we here?  Someone pretty special, that’s for sure.

Piping Plover chick at one week old

We have great news here in Brighton.  Piping Plovers, an endangered species of shorebird, are raising a family on the beach at Presqu’ile Provincial Park for the first time in 100 years.

Two day old chick and parent

Protection Plans in the US and Canada have been working to increase the population of Piping Plovers since 1986.   Action steps include protecting sandy habitats that Plovers need to nest, and public education programs.  Biologists have also installed enclosures over Piping Plover nests to protect them from predators.  This consists of a cage that has spaces large enough for the plovers to move freely in and out, but small enough to keep out predators like gulls and raccoons. Without the predator enclosures, about 37% of the eggs laid will hatch, but with the enclosures the success rate is 72%, almost a 100% increase.

Look out world, I’m here!

Here at Presqu’ile, a contingent of over 60 volunteers is keeping an eye on the plover family, taking shifts from early morning until sundown.  The idea is to observe the plovers and record their activity, as well as educate the public on this busy beach about the Piping Plovers, and really, just make sure these little ones don’t get stepped on.

Volunteer Coordinator Elizabeth putting out a driftwood shelter she made for the plovers

Funding has also allowed for the hiring of a Volunteer Coordinator, to oversee the scheduling of volunteers and helping in a major way with the public education aspect of the Piping Plover monitoring.

Trying out those wings! It will take four weeks for the chicks to learn to fly.

So of course I signed up to volunteer to monitor the little Piping Plover family.   I look forward to my shifts so much!   And all the other volunteers I have met out there feel exactly the same way.   We are privileged to be able to spend time with these rare and beautiful birds.

Shift change

It has been fascinating watching the family and their behaviour.  Here are Mom and Dad.  Mom is on the right, with a plain band on her left leg.   Dad is on the left, and has a yellow/orange/yellow striped band on the bottom of his left leg.    Both parents are one year old birds, born on Wasaga Beach on Georgian Bay last summer.

Dad and two chicks. Third is underneath…

Mom and Dad switch off chick rearing duties.   Even though the chicks start to eat on their own right from when they start walking around, the parents still keep an eye out for them.  They like to keep the chicks fairly close to them, and call out with gentle peeps when the chicks go too far.

Hurry hurry

This doesn’t always work.  The chicks are little speed demons, tearing all over the place like cotton balls on toothpicks.  Especially when they first hatched it was really hard for us humans to keep track of them, even armed with binoculars and a spotting scope.

Dad brooding chicks

One of the neatest behaviours I have observed while spending time with the Piping Plovers is how the parents brood the chicks.  Here’s a little sequence to show you how it all progresses.

Let me in

Dad is already brooding one chick (hence the multi-legged look) when number two comes along.

Move over

Number two just shoves itself in underneath, head first.  As the chicks get bigger, this becomes more and more comical.

me too

So now as number 3 arrives, it checks out the possibilities.

This is pretty good

For now it decides to snuggle up to its multi-legged dad and wait for a spot. This all happens quite quickly.  Once one chick dives underneath, the others are right behind.

Full.

Here’s dad brooding all 3 chicks in another spot on the beach.   Look at all those legs!  I hope he is enjoying himself because apparently mom will be migrating back to down to Florida soon after the chicks turn a week old!  Then dad will be on his own with them until they learn to fly, in about 3 more weeks.

Woo hoo!

Just as quickly as the chicks shove their way under, they pop right back out again!  Great stretching and wing flapping ensues.

Off I go again

Then more running around on the beach 3 different directions eating, eating, then running some more.

I took 600 shots in one evening. Maybe you can see why…

How cute is that?  Really?   I had the hardest time writing this blog because I couldn’t  choose the  photos.   Blogs can’t have 600 photos in them.  But I whittled it down.  Eventually.

Preparing for nighttime

As the sun was setting yesterday evening and my volunteer shift with the Piping Plovers was coming to a close, I watched as the little chicks gathered around the mother.

Safe for the night

All tucked in, right in the middle of a huge beach, you would hardly know they were there.  After watching them so closely it was hard to turn and walk away.

I’ve got the early shift tomorrow morning.   Can’t wait!

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