The main reason this was a bad year was the spring storms. They arrived when the birds were laying eggs. They dumped sand on the beach and washed away nests. The protective fencing we put up was washed away and so were all the eggs.

Every step of the way, they've treated her like a serial killer for no reason -- a hardened serial killer. And she's not. She's a loving mother who became desperately ill and really did the unthinkable,

With all these storms, we've really been beaten up lately. The beaches all need to be rejuvenated, and Mother Nature cannot do it on its own. We need sand.

Together we learned a lot from this project. I have no reason to believe we can't do it in other locations.

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

They are producing about one chick per pair and the number scientists have determined they need for the population to be stable is 1.24 per pair. What we're hoping for is that this is just a blip in the map and that populations will all recover. But before the populations all recover we have to be very vigilant.