Our resident backyard Curlews have, somehow, produced another egg and we are bracing ourselves for the night and day requirement to protect any chick from marauders. As we had thought the male mate of the female had been killed months ago , it has come as a surprise to see an egg. Already the sound of a Barking Owl which feeds on baby Curlews has been heard in the distance . Progress reports will be posted. It is clearly breeding time and the continued disappearance of Dracula, the cheese eating Coucal, recently seen loitering near a Thai restaurant , could be due to the fact that he is out in the bush fanging nubile flappers . UPDATE: There are now two eggs .
