Debunking Piping Plover Myth #1
“Because of those gosh darn *&%$@# Piping Plovers, Gloucester is going to lose tens of thousands of dollars in parking revenue.”
Not true.
Here is why. The Piping Plovers will be out of the parking lot, before the summer season begins and before school is out!
The one thing the parking lot PiPl have going for them is that they laid their eggs relatively early in the season. If the nest is left undisturbed, by the time the chicks hatch, we will be in the second week of June. It may take a day or two for them to make the epic journey to the beach, where they will much prefer to spend the summer. At the very latest, the chicks will be out of the parking lot by the third week of June.
So to be completely clear: the Good Harbor Beach parking lot is not closing and we will have ample parking during the summer months.
