2026 Piping Plover Report For their 5th consecutive year, Patty (hatched from Wasaga Beach in 2020) and Ollie (hatched from Tiny Township in 2021) have made Wasaga Beach their summer home. On April 23rd, Ollie returned to the off-limits Georgian Bay location in Wasaga...
Season Update Piping Plovers returned again to Wasaga Beach Provincial Park. 2021 fledgeling Gotawsi returned to his 2023 and 2024 nesting site on April 24th, 2025. An unnamed female arrived the same day, and they paired up very quickly. By May 17th they had a full...
2024 Piping Plover Report Gotawsi and his mate, who has been named Millie arrived on Wasaga’s shores in Beach Area 1 on the April 28th and 29th. They successfully completed courtship, laying four eggs and incubation and on June 11th. All eggs hatched and the four...
2023 Update Our 16th consecutive year with piping plovers on the Wasaga shoreline has proven to be one of the most unusual and challenging of all previous years. The following is a short recap of some of the happenings. On April 23rd the first plover of the season,...
May 2022 It has been an exiting few weeks along the Wasaga Beach shoreline. This year’s excitement began on April 18th with the arrival of Fudge, a male Piping Plover, to Beach Area 1. One week later Flash (male) arrived, and the day after that, Pepa (female). ...
April and May 2021 Exciting news! For the 14th consecutive year Piping Plovers have arrived and set up nesting sites on the shores of Wasaga Beach. Due to COVID-19 and ongoing restrictions, the Piping Plover Volunteer Program is currently on pause for the 2021...
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