To cover or not to cover, that's the question. The norvegian version of the second link you gave says "Usally the nest is located totally open in the terrain". But that study is made in a different envirenoment than my birds live in. So maybe they use a different strategy here? I'm doing a search now. Looking at pictures of divers on nest.
Back to the wagger. I'm not sure if I understand what kind behavior you are asking. Never seen a velicirator in action :-) But I have seen the wagtail in constant movement looking for food. Almost like a harvester. Sweet looking birds, but they sure are greedy. -- MaritimTim 2009/5/11 mike wilson <[email protected]>: > > ---- "Tim Øsleby" <[email protected]> wrote: >> The best way to make sure the vegetation looks local, is to use local > vegetation. That's what we are gone do. > > BTW: One of Mikes links show a nest without any vegetation at all. > That surpriced me. > > -- > MaritimTim > > Don't know about none but they seem to like minimal cover. The strategy > seems to be avoiding suprise rather than disguise. > > BTW, to get back on topic (!) have you seen Wagtails foraging for food in > vegetation? They run around like miniature velociraptors grabbing anything > tasty. Probably not possible to photograph but would video nicely. > > 2009/5/11 AlunFoto <[email protected]>: >> 2009/5/11 Tim Øsleby <[email protected]>: >>> The problem is how to make the float atractive to te Divers. I don't >>> know much about what kind of vegetation they prefer. If only I knew of >>> an old nest place of theirs. Then I could simply duplicate the >>> vegetation there. But I don't. >> >> Make sure the vegetation looks local. >> I think they'd prefer some tall grasses over a root. Maybe some Carex >> (eg. "flaskestarr"). >> >> Jostein >> >> >> -- >> http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ >> http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
