Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)

Having walked around at McKee-Beshers and seen only a few things, we decided to continue out River Road. Eventually it ends and you have to turn onto Mt. Nebo Road, which in turn becomes W Offutt Road. We followed those and then turned left on Edwards Ferry Road. There is a boat ramp at Edwards Ferry and near that we saw (and I photographed) three killdeer (or is it killdeers). We used to see them fairly often and remember a few years where there would be one nesting on or near the parking lot at Thanksgiving Farms on Buckeystown Pike in Adamstown. We haven’t seen them much in recent years, but now this is the second time in less than three months, having seen one at Redgate Park on Thursday, September 11, 2025. They are ground-loving birds, building their nests right on the ground, but of course they fly and are good flyers. Most of the birds in the plover family are shore birds and the two we’ve seen this year were on bodies of water but the killdeer is fairly common in upland areas, as well.