Bird Watching: Daily Pics. Vol. #52, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
Resin,
it did attract other birders to the site and a few saw it, but it did not co-operate as well as it did for me. No-one else saw the babies and in fact although I saw the bird in the same place on about 8 occasions, I only ever saw the babies the once (although I keep looking).

One last bird to complete my introduction to the series. Last week I was back at Wilsons Promontory againa (helping with a plant survey) and we again ate our lunch on Squeaky Beach. I commented that there were so many people using the beach (on a hot sunny day) that there was no way we were going to see the Sooty Oystercatcher this time. I was right, but instead we found a pair of Hooded Plovers - Charadrius rubricollis feeding beside a streamlet at the back of the beach. These are birds that are very much beach livers and are somewhat reduced in numbers by mankinds rather excessive taking over of the beaches. They nest at the back of beaches and it was great to find that this pair, despite the crowds on the beach, had succesfully reared two young, who were with them, fully grown, but in juvenile plumage.
Here is an adult Hooded Plover