The Killdeer is a beautiful bird. We see a lot of them because a pair has built a nest right in the middle of our driveway. When we first arrived on Sunday and stopped right by the Hill House in order to unload the bags, those two birds were screaming at us and running away in every directions. We knew a nest was close by. The nest is difficult to spot because there really is no proper nest; just an indentation in the ground with a few pebbles around the eggs constituting a nest. Ken and the girls found the nest so lay a shovel just in front to keep anyone from driving over the nest and crushing the three eggs.
Every day we check the birds and the eggs. We have had three serious storms this week and a bird is always sitting on the nest, even in the driving rain and strong winds. A few times we thought the winds would drive the bird away. There are always two birds close by: one to sit on the nest and one to be off eating. They both scream at us if we approach but by now they do not move when we drive by, even if the girls are in the gator.
In one of our bird boxes we have three little bluebirds being fed and in the other five eggs being sat on by a bird that Mary Frances is a Tree Swallow. Blue birds are everywhere. These birds are a treat watching their antics, especially the Killdeer.
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