All by his lonesome, Little Chick survived his first super busy Sunday entirely on his own. Perhaps he needs a new grown up name, such as Tuffers, something that recognizes his strong little spirit–or instinct for survival–subject to how anthropomorphic your views. I’ve gotten used to calling him Little Chick, but am open to suggestions 🙂
Little Chick in a Bowl
Stretch two three, right two three, left two three.
Thirty-nine-day old Piping Plover
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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."
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Little Chick in a Bowl
Thirty-nine-day old Piping Plover
Good Morning Gloucester 
give it a glostah name
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Help me think of one Chester 🙂
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Might it be a good idea to relocate him to Plum Island so he can join others and prepare for migration?
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I think/hope the best thing that will happen is that other PiPl will join him on GHB. Several times last summer, in August, small groups of traveling PiPL stopped at GHB to forage.
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Oh I hope he learns to fly soon ~ so adorable and precious ~ Name ~ Tuffy! ^_^
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He’s flying very well 🙂 🙂
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Kim, your photos are exquisite. You can feel every one of Little Chick’s feathers, and all his activities that you record give him quite a personality. I wonder if he needs company, if the other PiPls will accept him at Plum Island or Crane Beach??? Or the other kind of plovers at GH, do they seem to be accepting him? What does Cape Ann Wildlife say? Wasn’t that the outfit that temporarily rescued the little chick that was injured?
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Thank you nmat41, very kind of you to write that. See comment that I just posted above, about migrating PiPl at GHB.
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Sure is a feathered tiny warrior the will to survive is strong may you see many more sunrises and sunsets! 🙂 Dave
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I like that Dave– “feathered tiny warrior!”
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OMG, he is just sooooo cute! Love the name Little Chick. Do we know if it’s a boy or a girl?
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There is now way of knowing while in his juvenile plummage without a biologist sexting him. I began to think of him as a boy after I took a couple of accidental “butt” shots, where he turned quickly and all I got was the rear end. His cloaca seemed somewhat pronounced.
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