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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Martin Hobbs" data-source="post: 1362876" data-attributes="member: 69991">Hi Sal,I will see what I can do with the pictures.Each year we have a resident pair of Wattled Plovers in ours, or in next doors empty plot. We also have resident Crowned Plovers and occasionally Blacksmiths Plovers visiting, and of course the resident Spotted Dikkops (and no I am not going to get into the naming convention discussion again). It is great to see the chicks from all these Plovers each year. However, it makes driving in and out of the plot and up and down the panhandle a bit tricky sometimes as the poor little chicks don't know which way to run to avoid this big object coming towards them.We have many vlei’s running through many of the plots, and these create wetland areas in the summer rainy season. About 1km east of us as the birds fly, we have where Alan was the other day when he took the stunning pictures of the Black Egret – Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary. I created the bird bath in the middle of the grassy area so all the small birds would feel safe and comfortable, to try and attract exactly the sort of birds that Lulie is seeing at her bird bath, all the different Finches, Firefinches and Waxbills. I am jealous of all the small birds that Lulie is seeing at her bird bath.</blockquote>