Well, it happened. Thanks a lot piping plovers: the fireworks spectacle originally scheduled for July 7 were postponed until September 1– quite like they were in 2005.
Because of the proximity of the fireworks site to plover nests, the former could not take place until the yearly offspring of the latter fledged. After East Hampton Village officials and the fire department consulted with environmental experts, they concurred that the earliest the plovers would no longer be stuck on the beach would be mid-August. So to be safe, they pushed the fireworks ever further down the timeline. If the plovers continue to nest near Main Beach (as they have for the past three years), it appears as if September fireworks in East Hampton may be a perennial event.
The piping plover was placed on the endangered species list in 1985. Even after two decades plus of protection (a person or munciplaity can be fined as much as $35,000 for endangering the birds), there are no more than 40 expected in the East Hampton area. That puts the tiny birds in the vast minority among East Hampton's summer throngs. But it appears the birds have outweighed the opposition.
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