On an empty field near our house in the middle of suburbia I spotted this Spotted Dikkop squatting in the dry grass on its thick knees - not moving away from me and the dogs. After taking the photo, I quickly moved off but later, looking at the photo, I noticed that it has two extra pairs of little legs underneath. The chicks must have been sheltering from the heat - although today is a bit cooler with a chilly southeaster wind blowing.All our birds have been given official common names to integrate into the rest of the world and this ones new name is ''Spotted Thick-knee"- rather a silly name - I wish they had chosen the more poetic "Stone-curlew" as the official common name.
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Dikkops we know, but spotted thick-knee is not a name. Just a description, you know, that woman with red hair!
ReplyDeleteI love the dikkops. Close to me is a big open space behind a house and they have a pair of dikkops living there. Every now and then when I'm lucky they come to visit.
ReplyDeleteAmazing that she let you so close
ReplyDeleteI did zoom in from quite far away.
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