The night after our resident Curlews hatched two more chicks there was a noisy commotion and an accursed black cat was seen running off with one , the parents shrieking and wailing. The surviving bird is seen here peeping out from its highly protective mother . A Curlew of another kind-the Curlew Café-also disappeared , the owners doing what could be termed a moonlight flit , which is a shame because they tried to make it fly as a business , but it was not to be . In further bad news for Curlews and other fauna it seems Magnetic Island no longer has a dog /cat catcher .
