Thanks to city staff like Ken Whittaker, Gloucesters conservation agent, and experts like Kim Smith, volunteers have been inspired to have some fun helping wildlife in our own backyard. You can join in and follow their reports on Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/glostaplover?lang=en
The 2018 reports are also logged here goo.gl/DPygNw
No sign in required for either format. There’s a link for the 2017 records, too. Last year’s monitors were all ages and a few commuted from over the bridge. One mother daughter duo from the tri-state area scheduled a volunteer vacation in Gloucester because of Kim Smith and the city’s outreach!
As I write, folks have an eye on the plover pair in the Good Harbor Beach parking lot (still) incubating 4 eggs (still). Sign up with Ken Whittaker for a shift kwhittaker@gloucester-ma.gov. Last year’s post about how to sign up. Everything ramps up for chicks.
(through the binoculars- distraction dashing as crow went by )
Good Morning Gloucester 
Great post and what a bunch of community caretakers remember purpose behind a scare-crow also, helping them along on their passage annual Journey! Thanks Catherine…:-) Dave & Kim 🙂
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