There's nothing like a successful hatching to make Black Oystercatcher monitors happy. After several unsuccessful seasons, the Middle Rock BLOY finally have chicks. And I have a million photos of them.
Here is the BLOY family hang-out on Middle Rock on 8/16/22. The little black dots are BLOY (to be seen closer in the following photos.)
At the top of the photo below is the "fortress", behind which the BLOY apparently nested. Two chicks are resting to the right of the fortress. One adult is in the lower center.
All 4 birds are in the following photo, one chick at upper left, one in center. The adults are left bottom and right middle.
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| chick close-up (sort of) |
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| 2 resting chicks with opened shells behind... well fed chicks! |
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| adult scratching head showing long red bill, red eye and pink legs. Fortress left with chick left of adult and other chick above and behind adult, showing short bi-colored bill and lighter legs |
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| the whole family |
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