Piping Plover
“The former has yellow legs while the latter has a snazzy blackish brown breast band that is like that of a Piping Plover (only visibly smaller).”
Through the year
Columns that mention it, by the month they were published.
Year by year
Columns that mention it each year.
In his words
All 5 passages, oldest first.
Black-bellied Plovers, Piping Plovers, Sandpipers, Lesser and Greater Yellow Legs have all been spotted.
Additional mentionings from across town include a male Belted Kingfisher and many Cedar Waxwings sallying and gleaning over the Pond Cove brook corridor in Robinson Woods III, Seven Piping Plovers along Kettle Cove Beach on July 29 and an Artic Tern…
Debarking from Broad Cove on the eastern side of the island and walking along one of the rocky beaches wrack lines, I counted five Piping Plovers and eleven Semipalmated Sandpipers.
The former has yellow legs while the latter has a snazzy blackish brown breast band that is like that of a Piping Plover (only visibly smaller).
Lastly, on May 24 along Crescent Beach State Park I noted six Piping Plovers, four Semipalmated Plovers, two Semipalmated Sandpipers and a lone, Black-bellied Plover.