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Last 2023 Snowy Plover fledgling
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California We were very lucky this year to have video of the very last snowy plover chick of the season, just as it...
Power to the Plover
Sep 11, 20232 min read
Ormond Nest Update August 7, 2023
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California Here is our last snowy plover hatching on August 3, 2023. We were very fortunate to find the nest...
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Aug 7, 20231 min read
Skunk Depredation
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California We have been extremely fortunate during the 2023 nesting season that so few nests were lost to predators....
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Aug 7, 20232 min read
Birds and Beach Cleanups
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California photo by Alecia Smith, taken on Ormond Beach Ormond Beach, like too many beaches everywhere, has a...
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Aug 1, 20235 min read
Problems with Vehicles
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California There is nothing more terrifying than the idea of ATV's inside nesting habitat. Despite ordinances that...
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Jul 28, 20231 min read
Problems with people
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California Trail cameras are a great tool for nest monitoring. We are only in the habitat briefly each week, so a...
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Jul 28, 20233 min read
Ormond Nest Update July 26, 2023
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California The number of new snowy plover nests is definitely slowing down, and all activity is on the tideline. ...
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Jul 26, 20232 min read
Ormond Nest Update July 19, 2023
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California Although we still have a good number of active snowy plover nests, we are seeing more plovers at the...
Power to the Plover
Jul 19, 20232 min read
Ormond Nest Update July 11, 2023
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California Snowy plover nest numbers keep climbing, so far most have hatched. Last week we did lose a couple snowy...
Power to the Plover
Jul 11, 20231 min read
People Inside Habitats
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California The trail camera we put on our tern nest captured a lot of human activity inside the nesting habitat. ...
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Jul 4, 20231 min read
Ormond Nest Update July 4, 2023
Ormond Beach, Oxnard California As of the writing of this post we are 16 weeks into the snowy plover nesting season. Snowy plovers have...
Power to the Plover
Jul 4, 20232 min read
Ormond Nest Update June 16, 2023
Nesting season is really bustling and things are going great so far. Nesting for snowy plovers is still at a peak with 43 breeding...
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Jun 23, 20232 min read
Ormond Nest Update June 9, 2023
This week is exactly the mid-point of nesting season by the calendar. Our shorebird team re-spotted 11 clutches of chicks this week, no...
Power to the Plover
Jun 9, 20232 min read
Ormond Nest Update May 31, 2023
The snowy plovers at Ormond Beach have been very busy producing nests and rearing chicks this week. We found 6 more nests and had 4...
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May 31, 20231 min read
Why the Fences? Ormond Beach Nesting Areas
​​​At the May 12, 2023 Coastal Commission Meeting agenda item 13a asked approval for a Coastal Development permit for the Ormond Beach...
Power to the Plover
May 31, 20231 min read
Ventura Settling Ponds Update
The settling ponds and the Santa Clara River Estuary are about to undergo major changes. With the diversion of treated wastewater away...
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May 31, 20232 min read
Ormond Nest Update May 26, 2023
We didn't have any new nests hatch, but we found many more new nests. So we are indeed experiencing a 2nd wave of nesting. We found 7...
Power to the Plover
May 26, 20233 min read
Flower Power
Here's a fun trail camera video we captured in April 2023. This is a camera we had pointed at a predator exclosure. Predator exclosures...
Power to the Plover
May 19, 20231 min read
Ormond Nest Update May 19, 2023
​​​ This week we found a good number of hatched nests on our survey. We had a total of 6 nests hatch this week, plus 4 last week. This...
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May 19, 20233 min read
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