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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robert871" data-source="post: 1516880" data-attributes="member: 10963">yeah, these are really cool birds, we had a couple that would make nests on our spare lot for a few years, it was fun to watch them, they would do the dance to lure us away when we were not even within 100 feet of the nest usually we were just walking out to check the mail. we would grab some copper pipe and ribbon and flag their nests so we would not run them over with the mower, but i think our activity of mowing the lot every week or so in the summer months finally led them to give up on our land for their nests. kind of sad, i enjoyed their presence and seeing the babies when they hatched. i also thought their eggs are really cool looking. i agree their nests are really hard to find, ours would actually go get rocks from our drainage culvert and line the nest with a little wall, we would wait inside the house and watch for the bird to return to the nest so we could find it to flag it; even with that, it took us several minutes to find the nests, usually down an inch or so in a little hole with the grass blades laying over it a bit, the eggs would look like dirt and rocks in the shade. i miss these birds being around our home, i hope you enjoy yours as much as we did ours, and congrats on the discovery of the nest without destroying it. you will have to keep us posted with more pictures when the little ones hatch and start running around and the parent gets really excited about your activity.</blockquote>

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