This is the response Ray got about the Piping Plover that was seen at Headlands 7-22-14 . JT Sent from my iPhone. I L S Begin forwarded message: > 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 > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]