Oystercatcher Diary - Chapter 2, Day 1

Our Oystercatchers laid a new egg today! Expecting that there should be another joining it tomorrow.

Don't know how it works in Oystercatcher world, but the one Oystercatcher interloper that visited nest site last time on egg laying day was at it again today. It is also exactly 1 month to the day since 1st egg was laid. Strange.

Jo and I started work on the perimeter lines today and talked with Bruce from Bundeena Kayaks about making sure the kayak people either go the long way around to the Basin or drag kayaks outside our perimeter lines. We have set that line a little longer because of the groups that descend dragging kayaks, which will terrify the birds.

Yabby pumpers also going to be a problem. We will need to ensure that anyone walking the beach does so beach side and we cut off the traffic that wants to go creek side. The birds are nesting only around 15 metres from creek side so they will be off too much if anyone wants to walk on the creek. Yabby pumpers will need to be directed to keep closer to the mangrove area rather than the sand creek side.

Does anyone have any time for volunteering on the weekend and/or next weekend, preferably two hours, but any time you can give? Lora I know you can't, but would still like to include you on emails as hoping we may have more luck this time and so want to include you if we do. Though I am still seeing fresh fox prints each day. I'm hoping because they have nested in amongst a lot of debris this time, and hoping eggs don't actually have a smell, that the fox might miss the eggs this time.