Nish was identified by a colored star marking given to last year’s chicks to represent the Chicago flag. He and two female plovers from Pennsylvania were spotted at Maumee by late May, but some birders believed he was stopping in Ohio on his way to another locale, perhaps Michigan. The young plover, taking after his parents, decided to go for a first, settling down along the Lake Erie shore at a halfway point between Chicago and Presque Isle, where his mate hatched.
