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For the birds
For those of us who are sitting around all day doing next to nothing but recover, watching the birds in the garden is as good as it gets. We usually have a couple of pots of water just off the veranda...
Plovers would have to be the stupidest birds I've ever observed. How they are not extinct when they persist in trying to nest in the most ridiculous places is a mystery to me. One pair tries, repeatedly, to nest in the middle of my friends training arena. Hey, it's half an acre of sand, what could possibly go wrong? Never mind the tons of gypsy cob horses that churn around in there dragging carts...
It's interesting though that my local pair managed to hatch four chicks and still have two of them. I can't ever remember seeing so many of the babies. Maybe it's just the extraordinary dry year so there is less stuff to hide in.
It's interesting though that my local pair managed to hatch four chicks and still have two of them. I can't ever remember seeing so many of the babies. Maybe it's just the extraordinary dry year so there is less stuff to hide in.