Its 32 days since I observed a dotterel nest with one egg on a shell bank in the estuary. The giveaway was that a pair of dotterels had been rather agitated with a two Caspian tern one an adult and the other a juvenile resting up on the shell bank at high tide. When I checked at low tide, I discovered a dotterel nest with just one egg so presumed that his a had recently been laid as dotterel usually lay three eggs. I quickly added a anti hawk shelter to give the dotterel a chance as hawks are very active at predating eggs or chicks.
I started counting the days to hatching. 28-32 is the usual so concern now is that maybe the eggs are not fertile, or some other issue has occurred.
