The Rest of the Killdeer Story...

It was more than two weeks, closer to three and no babies! Mama was feeding a few feet away from her nest... and there almost invisible lay the two speckled eggs.

That night a storm came in, a whopping storm that created sheets of water running thru our site and the park. What about the Killdeer?

The next day as we walked by the Killdeer site... nothing! Only little tiny moraines of debris remained suggesting a lot of water had washed thru.

What about the eggs?

Mama and Papa were close by. She ran and sat, ran and sat. While he flew about vocalizing loudly working hard at distracting us.

We looked, but no sign of babies or eggs. I was sad. After all that fuss and care and they still didn't make it.
(Missed the first of the story?  Read about how business and nature can co-exist.)

We stopped by the office and wait! Ed had spotted the babies. Tiny little feathered bodies with long legs and so camouflaged he almost stepped on one. Somehow, eggs or babies made it thru the storm. Hallelujah!

- Photo by ram.rom82 at http://deafpagancrossroads.com/2008/05/06/i-brake-for-killdeer

(I didn't catch a photo myself)

Try as we might, we never did see the babies, but Mama and Papa still linger around the lake and somewhere in the brush two little Killdeer chicks wait till there wings are strong enough to take flight and start the cycle all over again.

Missed the first of the story?  Read about it here...