Weather conditions were bad yesterday with strong winds and driving rain.  The daytime tide was not especially high and everything looked fairly normal at full tide yesteday.  1 of the youngest chicks was moving around a lot and I was surprised that the parent was not brooding it as the conditions were so bad.

Today Sandra found a chick in that area that had died, probably due to the weather.  She could see the second chick which looked ok.  There should be 2 other chicks around that age so we will need to check over the next day or so to locate them and make sure that they are alive and well.

A count of Ringed Plovers on Thursday by Breffni had 440 of which at least 100 were juveniles.