Tenth Anniversary for the Wrightsville Beach Bird Steward Program Begins

 We are very excited to begin our 10th year of posting the south end of Wrightsville Beach.  The nesting shorebirds will soon be arriving and on March 28 an ambitious group of Wrightsville Beach Bird Stewards showed up to set off a protected area to welcome them. 

Lindsay Addison delivered the new signs to the shoreline and helped get us organized. 

Our team divided into several groups and quickly got started. One group carried the signs to the appropriate place.  

Another group dug the holes for the posts and then the posts needed to be secured in the sand. 

Several volunteers cleaned out litter from inside the posting.. with some interesting finds😁

And then it was time to add the string to remind our summer guests to give the birds some space to nest and raise their new chicks this summer. 

While we are waiting for the Least Terns, Common Terns, American Oystercatchers and Black Skimmers to arrive and begin courting, nesting, and raising new chicks we saw some Common Loons in the surf. 

And one of the volunteers discovered a Killdeer nest in the dunes. The parent bird does a broken wing display to draw people away from the nest. The nest is not visible from outside the posting, but you may see the adult bird on occasion as they take a break from incubating the eggs. What an exciting beginning to our 10th season!