Look what I found! Everyone should know about this. 🤎 🤍 🖤 🥰 😘

And check out the photo of a piping plover chick just emerging from its shell, with its minuscule egg tooth still in place. 🥚 It's on the page titled "Our Mission."

The majority, if not all, of the photographs were taken by Kim Smith.

#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #PipingPlovers

https://pipingploverproject.org/

#EarthDay #OldOrchardBeach - About 80 volunteers picked up trash on the beach and learned about the state's endangered #PipingPlovers, which nest in the delicate sand dunes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/general/volunteers-return-to-old-orchard-beach-for-annual-earth-day-cleanup/vi-AA1Df8on#details

#Earthday2025 #EarthDayCleanup #Maine #MaineBeaches

Time for some adorableness. 🥰 😘

This is a piping plover on the beach standing guard over her two chicks. They are TINY.

Photographer - Karl Ramsdell

Edit: I am informed by @Avloky that she is being a "Mombrella," shielding her babies from the sun and other weather. A perfect description! 🏖️

#Birds #Birbs #PipingPlovers #NestingSeason