For Macro Mondays 'Button'

A button on Daniel's favourite Piping Hot Jacket.

Barnegat Light, NJ

Heartbroken to lean that this cute specie is endangered due to its habitat loss.

Maine

Connecticut

Everyone needs a secret beach hideout. Researchers only recently discovered that more than one-third of the Piping Plover population that breeds along the Atlantic coast spends the winter in the Bahamas.

They are endangered due to habitat loss, disturbance, and predation.

Maine

Connecticut

(Immature), Fish Haul Creek Beach, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

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Stone Harbor Point, New Jersey, USA

During August and September, we observed 4 juvenile Piping Plovers in the same general area of the beach. They were usually in the tire tracks or up in the dunes on the dry sand. Nice images but I prefer my shorebirds in the surf or on the wet sand. It was late in the afternoon with about 90 minutes of light left when we came upon our 4 friends. Were where they? In the tire tracks of course. We had to make a decision. Do we wait and hope that the birds move to the water or continue on our way and hope to find something else to work with. We decided to give them 15 minutes. Boy am I glad we waited. They did indeed head to the water and were outrageously cooperative. They made up for all the hours we patiently waited over the summer. We took tons of images but this was my favorite.

Nikon D7200 with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens and 1.4 converter

1/2000 f5.6 ISO 800

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Connecticut

Little Compton, RI

Connecticut

Charadrius melodus

Maine

USA

Maine

Post-bath wing flap and hop

Connecticut