Killdeer – a snowy arrival
Such a long spring migration, to find your parking lot nesting site covered in snow! Some northern birds spend the winter in Mexico. In the southern United States.
Such a long spring migration, to find your parking lot nesting site covered in snow! Some northern birds spend the winter in Mexico. In the southern United States.
While photographing a horse show I noticed some commotion on a hill near some spectators. This Killdeer was working hard to distract th spectators from walking on its nest. After the show I went to see what the commotion was all about, the Killdeer changed antics becoming more and more wounded the closer I got, I quietly walked past the nest taking a couple of photos without stopping and let them be.
Driving along a Grey County road we spotted these three tiny Killdeer chicks, two fled for the ditch and one decided to blend with the road, so of course we had to stop and take a photo.
Hoping the Plovers had arrived … nope they had not, but the Killdeers had!