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This Morning Outsideby Diane PorterMay 30, 2010 When I paused my car and looked out the open window to see if the killdeer eggs had hatched (which they should do any day now), the parent got off the nest so fast it seemed to sprain something. It fluttered about on the gravel road as if it had a broken wing and could not fly. I saw that the eggs had not hatched, and I drove on carefully. The killdeer underwent an instantaneous cure and went straight back to the eggs and stood over them again to shield them from the sun.
If you didn't know about the broken wing ruse, you could certainly be fooled by a parent killdeer's way of distracting you from their precious eggs. —Diane Porter |
