Oystercatchers building their test scrape

I would have loved to have been able to capture a better video of how nest building happens but you can't get too close causing them to move away from what they are doing. For this shot I was able to hide behind the remnants of a wattle bush, killed by the last east coast low. Our birds share scrape building but I was only able to capture a little bit. Normally the bird will spin around frantically, doing the digging you see with their feet, and then if you are very, very lucky, drops an egg. This bird was adding to a nest site they had already started so wasn't able to capture the whole scene. Just before the main fertile period of the egg being able to be produced, they will work one site for many days in the hopes it will be "the one". Then, at the last minute, they will have had a significant disturbance and decide it was not right. Seems after about 5 days of working a site endlessly, without significant disturbance, they are happy to settle and out comes the egg.