PLOVER STORY: Spur-winged Plovers Nesting > Day Eighteen: Long-legged and confident... (16 Nov 07) (7)
It was amazing to see how confident the chicks have become - and how long-legged! Both chicks were foraging (at great speed) far from the parent bird, coming and going at will. The parent seemed remarkably unperturbed by this, as if it knew this was a necessary part of the chicks learning to fend for themselves. By looking at each chick, hatched less than a day apart, you can tell how quickly they develop, day by day: the plumage of the older chick has developed noticeably in comparison to the second chick - and yet it is less than 24 hours older...How quickly these changes must occur. Catch up on all the news from 16th November 2007...
