Volunteers monitor endangered piping plover chicks released on Lake County beach; ‘They were right at home`
(Chicago Tribune Religion News)

Those chicks — and another hatched at a captive-rearing facility in Michigan — have been running around on the sand between Illinois Beach State Park and Waukegan Beach in Lake County for a few weeks, and roughly 20 local volunteers like Moss have been closely watching the young shorebirds to keep them safe until they fly south for the winter.