Name: Glen Ingram Macleay Is, Qld, Australia (Zone 12a) (Lee Reinke X Rose F Kennedy) X Unk
As promised: Bush Stone-curlews. This is these parents second brood for the season (January 2014). The young are precocious and it is difficult getting close to them until the parents decide they are a handful and bring them down to be fed. They are large birds with a wonderful, murderous, screaming call. This scares the heck out of visitors staying over. They are a nocturnal, terrestrial wader that are rare on the mainland but common on small offshore islands. Sometimes called thick-knees because of the habit of resting on them. I have about 11 that come to my garden
The problem is that when you are young your life it is ruined by your parents. When you are older it is ruined by your children.
