During a recent trip to Chincoteague, I was very happy to discover that Piping Plovers had arrived - I found 3 feeding on the same mudflat quite close to each other along with Dunlin and Black-bellied Plovers. I was able to stay and draw them for a while but did this watercolor later when we got back home. They really are diminutive birds but typically plover-like in behavior. And when a Merlin zipped past heading north, all the other waders took off but they amazingly stayed, crouching slightly for a while then they began feeding again. This painting was done on Canson watercolor paper, size is 12" x 8".
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Piping Plovers are little cuties (that’s my Serious Scientific Opinion)
They are cute, that's for sure! They breed on the nearby island so hopefully I'll be able to get a look at their chicks when they hatch (at a safe distance of course). I think they will be even cuter - and that's my Serious Scientific Opinion!
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