Still no mating success

The mating yesterday didn't take but they tried again at midday today. If successful, it is 24 hours from mating to egg production.

Is anyone available in the afternoons either day over the weekend? I will need to ring once I've confirmed there is an egg to protect. What we need to do over the weekend depends on where they drop their eggs.

I'm hoping that if they drop an egg, Sunday would be the day as it is cooler, thus allowing us time to put up a fence if we need to move our existing one.

If they drop Saturday, then volunteers will be needed to keep people back, we just won't have any rope lines to refer to. It is already busy here, and the area they seem interested in this time is busier with walk throughs, both families and kayak dragging as it is a shortcut to the Basin.

We need temperatures under 25 degrees in order to put up a new fenceline around them, if they change nest location. Will need people that can do traffic control, fence dismantling if they change positions, also someone that can do the record keeping for the Birdlife Australia's endangered bird database. Simple form to record movement around the nest site by what type of traffic.

After the temperature drops, then we need to reinstall fencing and signage, making sure the bird is not off nest any longer than 20 minutes, otherwise it is tools down for 40 minutes before we can keep going.

Thanks everyone, hope we have some people available, These nature beasties need to learn to work in the real world where they make an appointment before doing anything!