We’re so very sorry to write that two chicks were killed today. Catherine Ryan witnessed a terrible scene with a large dog tearing around in the nesting area at dawn, and a volunteer monitor observed one taken by a gull.
All that’s left of our little GHB Pipl Family – Mama (left), Papa (right) and our two remaining chicks.
Please volunteer to be a PiPl monitor. You will truly be making a difference in whether or not our PiPl chicks survive. And you’ll meet the nicest bunch of people. Anyone of us can show you what to do. The shifts can be as long as you like, but an hour is all we are asking. The weather forecast looks gorgeous this weekend, and it is Father’s Day on Sunday, so we are hoping to have two on at each shift. Contact kwhittaker@gloucester-ma.gov.
Please share this post and help spread the word that we need volunteers. Thank you ❤
Good Morning Gloucester 
I am so sorry! If I live in Gloucester, I would be a volunteer for the PiPi
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Oh no…that’s. Just so awful and sad
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I hope the dog owner was appropriately fined. I’m so sad that half the brood is gone.
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So sorry to read this.
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Was there any consequence for the dog owner?????
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Why aren’t the police enforcing the rules? No dogs on the beach ever
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you are awesome Kim!
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It’s time to get rid of ALL the men & dogs in Glosta and only allow bird loving women.
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This infuriates me, that someone would let their idiot dog do that. I think dogs should be banned from the beaches. We have a dog park.
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