This attentive piping plover parent was keeping close watch over its lone chick. It's wonderful to see these birds caring for their ...

Wishing you all a happy new year and all the best for 2020!

The photo above is another one that made my list of 2019 favorites . I love the color tones provided by the warm sunrise light under a h...

At the end of the year it's always fun to look back through the photographs I've made over the last 12 months. In 2019, the bulk...

I had a lot of fun watching this family of piping plovers on my first trip to Sandy Point State Reservation for the summer breeding seas...

Warm sunrise light with just enough high clouds in the sky came together to illuminate this young piping plover chick while it was explo...

The dreary last few days in the Boston area reminds me of my first trip this summer to see the piping plover chicks at Sandy Point State...

It was nice to watch this parent piping plover watch over its young chick on the beach at Sandy Point State Reservation, though it was a...

This curious piping plover chick quickly came close to check me out when I arrived on the beach on this July morning. The sun had just r...

A young piping plover chick pauses for a moment and gives me a nice profile view while exploring the beach at Sandy Point State Reservat...

This piping plover chick was all warmed up and ready to slip out from under its parent's feathers. After watching these adorable lit...

When they're not brooding under a parent, tiny piping plover chicks seem to be in constant motion. Just like the adults, they have a...

While it’s fun to capture portraits or action shots of piping plover chicks running about on their own, I’m partial to photographs of th...

There were multiple broods of piping plover chicks exploring the beach at Sandy Point State Reservation on this June morning. By the tim...

Sometimes, while watching these birds on the beach through a large telephoto lens, you forget the sense of scale. Especially when their ...

A young piping plover chick exploring the beach as its parent watches in the background. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but ...

Photographing piping plover chicks can be so rewarding since they're so curious. On many occasions during my recent trips to Sandy P...

The early morning alarms to get to the refuge entrance by sunrise can be rough in the weeks around the solstice, but it's always wor...

The brooding behavior of piping plovers makes for such special photographic moments. While the precocial chicks are incredibly independe...

According to the field guides, it can be a little challenging to identify the sex of Atlantic Coast piping plovers. The notable differen...