Plover's eggs?

[seaslug]

Along Victoria Parade with no parent birds in sight.

[millicat]

aww no mamma or dadda around, that's strange isn't it!! I have never seen Plover eggs ... way different to chicken eggs lol.

[Alan]

They do look like Masked Lapwing (used to be called Spur-winged Plover) eggs. But I'm no expert.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=m...w=1467&bih=834

[P Plates]

Very unusual as plovers like Magpies are very protective parents.

[Sully]

Very unusual as plovers like Magpies are very protective parents.

Plovers are paranoid … … coming back from a walk this arvo I was swooped about 8 times (for the first time ever) a couple of houses down from my place … … so not impressed!
Had my camera, briefly thought of trying to get a picture … but to see one homing in on you does not give you much of a chance to focus and duck at the same time.

[seaslug]

They're certainly protective once the eggs hatch.

I have a pair of Spurwing/ Lapwings that nest in the park just over the road from my house. They have chicks once or twice a year depending on the season. It's interesting to watch the chick grow to the stage the parents force them to fly and then leave. It's a real education on parenting.

At times the chicks get down in the gutter and are not able to get back up onto the grassed area. (They've also been up my driveway). It's a real challenge to get them back to where they belong. It's usually me with a golf umbrella making a ramp of some sort and then herding them to the park with parents in full dive bomb mode!

[Sully]

Hmmm umbrella may be the way to go … we have the Spurwing here nesting in the park on the corner … and others nesting on nature strips along the street. Early this year was the first time we have had several 'families' in the street, they can be so noisy … but they are great 'watch dogs' during the night, if anyone or anything is out and about in the dark the whole street hears about it.