Rest and renest

The Oyks are still working the area, feeding and resting and at the high tides building new scrapes. They have been building all over the beach like they do all winter. Their activity seems to be a lot more frantic and is gaining pace. The furthest point I've seen them building is down on the pointy end of the Spit, which would not work because of the inundations and people traffic and I'm guessing they've worked that out. During that expedition I found a 1917 half penny sitting right beside where they'd tried to build that scape.

We had a visitor on the beach I've not seen before. This track is about the size of the top half of the top third of your little finger. Guessing being so small it doesn't normally leave a track you can see on dry sand. Noticed it because it left a track straight under the rope lines and the sand was slightly wet so was able to pick it up. Surprised something so small would venture out so far onto a beach with no cover. Don't know what it is, but interesting to see.

Fortunately, there is a point inside the lines that the Oyks do tend to be using as a site a lot more than others. When they revisit a site it is a good sign they are starting to feel comfortable and it just needs that area to be quiet long enough for them to be happy with it and put the eggs down. It will require a bit of fence line realignment as it is on the far edge of the eastern edge so we will need to steal from one end to add to the other to keep people a safe distance from them but all doable.