We haven't managed a walk along the beach for some time, partly because of the rotten weather, partly because the tide has been high during the mornings when we take our daily exercise, and partly because we have been very busy unpacking, but today we were able to check on progress at the various waders' nests.
Both plovers' nest 1 and 2 have been abandoned - this plastic bottle marked nest 2. Perhaps the eggs have hatched, perhaps a dog or one of the many crows along the beach raided the nest. Certainly, there were human footprints all round this one.
Just a few steps further along the beach a plover was doing its usual hurrying up and down the sand, a sure sign of a nest further up the beach, a nest we haven't been aware of before. At least this time....
....the pair had chosen a more promising site, somewhere close to the pebbles at the very top of the beach, not the sort of place where humans are likely to go, where they have laid....
....a clutch of four eggs.
A little further still along the beach nest 3 is doing fine, with one of the parents sitting on it as we passed, and....
....a few metres beyond them the two oystercatchers were still very much on guard.
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