Killdeer 2 Sleight of Wing
by Gary Holmes
Title
Killdeer 2 Sleight of Wing
Artist
Gary Holmes
Medium
Photograph
Description
Second in a series of a female Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) guarding her nest in the middle of a city park. She left the nest to distract away from the nest, performing the characteristic broken wing display. This went on for about a minute until I moved out of range of the nest. It is remarkable that the nest has remained untouched in the middle of this field, 30 feet from a disc golf target basket, about 60 feet from a children's playground, and with hundreds of grackles and other aggressive birds nearby. The grass had also been mowed since I first located the nest a few days ago.
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April 17th, 2013
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