The Piping Plovers are back on the beaches of Maine.

Yesterday on the north end of Wells Beach near the dunes . . . I watched a Bullmastiff playing chuckit catch with his master. The beach is 2 miles long and they decided to play where the endangered species nest each year.

Being a coward I didn’t say anything but I gave the dog’s owner my best withering glare and he seemed to get the message.

A few minutes after the dog was off the beach I counted four, maybe five, Piping Plovers.

A true sign of Spring in Maine.