This is the response Ray got about the Piping Plover that was seen at Headlands 7-22-14 .   JT

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> From: Raymond Hannikman <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: July 26, 2014 at 3:29:57 PM EDT
> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Fw: piping plover at headlands beach state park on 7/23/2014
> Reply-To: Raymond Hannikman <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> hi jer - looks like this bird has not gone back to sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore to breed  wonder where it has been for the last few years?.  ray
> 
> On Friday, July 25, 2014 7:29 PM, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ray,
> 
> Thanks for sending in your information about this migrating Great Lakes 
> Piping Plover. I can't give a whole lot of detail on this particular bird 
> since the band combination is one that we use on chicks and reuse in 
> subsequent years. Once an adult breeds it usually gets a unique pattern of 
> band colors that will identify it for the rest of its life. This particular 
> plover hatched at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan in 
> 2008, 2009 or 2010. We've stopped using light green bands (too hard to tell 
> from light blue) so it hatched no later than 2010. Interesting that we 
> haven't found it breeding and re-banded it yet.
> 
> It's possible that there's a colored dot on either the light green or 
> orange bands, or a three-digit number on the light green band that would 
> give us more information and decisively identify this plover. Did notice 
> anything like that?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Alice Van Zoeren
> 
> On Jul 25 2014, Raymond Hannikman wrote:
> 
> hi ms. zoeren:  my name is ray hannikman and a group of us also had a 
> banded piping plover at headlands beach state park, lake county, ohio, on 
> july 23, 2014 the same date as a piping plover was found at Conneaut harbor 
> here in ohio.  headlands beach state park is about 40 miles west of 
> Conneaut harbor and has a large sandy bathing beach where the bird was 
> found.  the bird had three bands as follows:  on the right leg was an 
> orange band on the top of the leg while a green band was on the bottom of 
> the right leg;  the only band on the left leg was the actual metal band.  
> we were not able to read the number on this band.  in august of 2013 we 
> had a piping plover with five (5) bands and, if I recall correctly, its 
> origin was the same shore area in Michigan where the july 2014 conneaut 
> harbor piping plover originated.  I hope I have not cluttered up your 
> email with our sighting - we are always excited to see piping plovers at 
> headlands beach state
>   park and are eager to find out about our birds' origins.    thanking 
> you in advance for any information you can provide on our piping plover 
> sighting of 7/23/2014.  ray hannikman
> >
> 
> 

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