Killdeer

[mbrager]

What's with the name?

1.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8427/7499128548_04419c5544_c.jpg

2.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8287/7499127182_ceaf431ecd_c.jpg

3.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8010/7499125616_1edb016232_c.jpg

[Marko]

I like the vignette in shot 1.

[vyeko]

Number one for me too.

[AntZ]

Nice series.

[GreenleafJason]

Great shots. I think you can see her speckeled egg in shot #3. The killdeers around my house like to lay there eggs on the walking path I use. As you walk by sometimes they act injured to lure you away from the nest. They are quite entertaining.

[Hillbillygirl]

Nice series MBrager, and another vote for #1.

(Killdeer gets its name by the call it makes. Sounds like it is saying "kill deer" over and over repeatedly).

[Matt K.]

Wonderful in flight shot, Mike. Those are quite peculiar birds. I watched as one male tried to fend off a gopher from his three youngens and his wife while at Buffalo Lake. Of course I went for a walk with the wife, and not with the camera :wall-an::headslap::wall-an: