Plover lover

More signs of spring, the spur wing plovers are back nesting. For the last couple of years, they have been returning to the same spot in the corner of the parking lot. Not the ideal situation I would have thought, but they seem to manage.

The nest is little more than a hole scraped in the gravel, but they seem to like the spot. There are a couple of olive green, brown speckled eggs

The birds get very aggressive if you get too close and dive bomb you.

The real question is how you pronounce "plover". It turns out others have had the same question, the answer is that it can be pronounced either like clover or lover.




As in "I am a plover lover, so when I see a plover in clover, I don't know what to say"

One of the earliest computer games I played was called "Adventure". You travelled through a colossal cave solving puzzles and looking for treasures. One of the the treasures was described as follows:

"There is an emerald here, the size of a plovers' egg."

Well here are plovers eggs.