A very small Kentish Plover chick. It appears to be a few days post-hatching. It was also running along the sandy beach.

A two-shot with the parent bird.

These two Kentish Plovers were doing distraction displays to protect their chicks, but are they both females? Don't male Kentish Plovers take part in raising the young?

p.s. Apparently at this time of year feather wear is so heavy that it becomes hard to tell males from females. I was told the individual on the left is a male. The distinguishing point is that the lateral breast band is black. A researcher from Bird Research explained this to me.

If I sit in the shade on the sandy beach, they come within five or six metres.

A Kentish Plover stretching its neck slightly in response to the sound of the camera shutter.

Even when an Osprey flew over the Kentish Plover nesting area, the adults ignored it completely. They know it won't attack them.

This appeared from a hole in the sandy beach. A horn-eyed ghost crab.