We headed out to the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary early yesterday morning to see what birds were out on the beach, as it was soon to be low tide. We were not disappointed!
Looking for food in the tidal pools was a Black-Bellied Plover and he was beautiful! We spoke to one of the volunteers and she said that this bird was just coming into his plumage.
Beautiful bird, don’t you think?
I never knew there were so many different kinds of plovers! I think we had piping plovers at SMS.
We also had Kildeer at SMS which look somewhat similar to the Piping Plovers.
I always wondered why shore birds were nesting inland—they weren’t shorebirds! 🙂
We frequently saw Kildeer nesting in the middle of a parking lot!