Thanks Val for the invaluable info regarding the behaviour of the parent
Hooded Plover during incubation and the requirements of the hatchling
during the first 5 days. It makes me less inclined now to observe and
photograph these birds. I was watching these birds and I noticed even
at what I thought was a safe distance (20M) they had the typical head
bob behaviour that they were nervous and uneasy. As for the Red-capped
Plover, I've photographed these birds before and have had them approach
me at a distance of 4M. So they're very nervy in comparison.
"I haven't studied Red-capped Plover so am not sure what you mean."
Well what other people that I've spoken to have observed Red-capped
Plover (female) displaying an act of being injured and leading the
person away from the nest. Is that what the Hooded Plover does aswell?
Is that what all Plovers do?
Hopefully if they were incubating eggs yesterday that they weren't left
for too long. What is the ideal temperature for incubation? It wasn't
an overly hot day yesterday, so they might be ok.
"What beach were you on? The Hooded Plovers I monitor, as part of the
Friends of the Mornington Peninsula Hooded Plover group, are those on
Koonya and Montfort beaches."
That's funny I went down pretty much to every beach yesterday, including
Koonya. I managed to get myself lost on the paths going back to Spray
Point Rd, so I didn't bother going to Montfort.
Out of all the beaches I saw on the backbeach side I thought these
looked the most ideal. They looked more quite than the others.
The beach that I found them was actually in Point Nepean right at the
tip on the foreshore, near Cattle Jetty. Their area seemed to be from
Cattle Jetty all the way to The Bend.
Regards
Darryl
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