Red capped Plover nest number two

Today was overcast and quite cool - temperature barely got above 28 degrees. With that in mind after homework was finished decided to go to the beach to have a kick around with the football.
As is the way no sooner had we started than other things got the better of the children and they were soon off digging up crabs etc...

This was the view looking back towards Buffalo Creek..

miles and miles of sand!

On the walk back our attention was caught by this "injured" red capped plover

A quick search soon revealed the reason for the display.

The children were very impressed with this.

In the morning I paid a quick visit to Knuckey Lagoon - the overcast conditions meant that everything was active throughout the morning. It was a very enjoyable couple of hours but I really could not get the digiscope set up to work and everything was out of focus which was a right pain.
The most unexpected photo though was this

a golden-headed cisticola.

Tomorrow Tish is on an early and Cameron is in school so I think a trip to Holmes Jungle may be called for, and hopefully a few photos of butterflies will appear.