Maybe next year, sigh!

Third year of trying, unfortunately this year nature beat us with two king tides in a month, both with huge swells. A truly unusual event. I am really hoping it won't take us the full ten years it takes other areas that are hosting beach nesting birds, after a long break since they were last seen nesting, to hatch some chicks.

But if it does, so be it.

You have to feel so sorry for these birds. They have so little suitable room to put down eggs as beaches are so well populated. In the few areas available between Newcastle and Wollongong that they are now trying to expand into, let's hope our volunteer network can continue to be strong enough to help them.

If we can't find out how to live on the beaches with these birds, developing a network up and down the whole east Australian coast, then they will become extinct.

A species is strong only if you have a long chain of populations that can mix and breed rather than trying to force them to interbreed in a very small area.