Watching a rare pair

We live on St Huberts Island and a couple of mouths ago a pair of bush stone-curlews laid one egg on our back lawn just three metres from our verandah.

We had three weeks of watching their change over duties and then the chick emerged with one bird quickly dispatching the shell.

Our council environment officer and several bird watches came from Sydney to photograph and observe this beautiful chick but unfortunately the birds moved on after three days and we don't know if the chick survived.

It is no wonder they are a rare and endangered species.

Wal and Iris Bate St Huberts Island