They're back....

We have a pair of Spotted Dikkops (now referred to as Spotted Thick-Knees for some obscure reason) who have nested in our street for as long as we have lived here.

Their return to the street in late spring is confirmation, for me, that summer is not far behind.

Egg-sitting

I keel you...


Sometimes one will stand in the middle of the road when I'm coming home from the gym early in the morning, almost daring me to come closer. I have to sit and wait for it to calm down before slowly driving on. They are, apparently, monogamous birds so I'd hate to harm one accidentally.

And we can sit in the boma of an evening, watching the bats catching their dinner and listening to the Dikkops calling.