Open Sesame!

No Nest Like Dad With the Atlantic breeze ruffling his feathers, a tiny piping plover chick (Charadrius melodus) makes a beeline for Dad’s cozy embrace. Why build a nest when you can be one? This patient piping plover father offers sanctuary to his chick—part parenting, part survival, all love. On Nova Scotia’s fragile shores, moments like these are as vital as they are vanishing. Endangered but enduring, the species carries on one chick at a time. I love the full story being told with the wave crashing in the background.