Just a bit more mating and we can be assured of fireworks on the Fourth of July once again. The New York Times has a story about a pair of piping plovers nesting on a Revere beach in Massachusetts. In NYC terms, that's kind of like having plovers nesting on Jones Beach. But what does this mean?
Simply that plovers are on the comeback. In 2006, scientists tracked 1,743 mating pairs of piping plovers. 2,000 is the magic number to get them off the endangered species list. So it should only be a matter of mating before the little birds that cancelled the East Hampton fireworks two out of the last three years are out of the woods and we can get back to celebrating America properly. And we're sure Jerry Della Femina will have something else to gripe about by then anyway.
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