Jill Dening wrote.
- Small sand plovers love to rest in sand gutters on a rising tide, when
they have finished feeding. A bank can appear at first glance to be empty,
but scoping can reveal a host of tiny heads scattered singly all over the
place. We find this particularly with Red-capped Plovers and Double-banded
Plovers at the moment.
I have seen Red-capped Plovers do the same, sheltering from the wind by
crouching in human footprints indented in the sand and in 4WD wheel marks.
Also Double-banded Plovers doing likewise amongst the flotsam at the high
tide mark. I suppose this is also a survival trait, it would help to make
them less conspicuous to raptors.
Bruce.
