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Two killdeer chicks (Charadrius vociferus) born this morning on the shoreline of Vancouver Island.

Edit: I kept a very safe distance and used a telephoto lens. The photo is cropped.

@jonbjoy Thank you very much. They were born while I was there.

@CatherineBabault Killdeer are charismatic. Melodramatic, even. :)

@CatherineBabault Smart! I had one who chose to nest in the middle of my garden years ago....

@wildsown How convenient! 😁

@CatherineBabault Saw a Killdeer yesterday and guessed that it might be running noisily away from its eggs to draw our attention away. :-)

@lopta They do and they pretend to have a broken wing too as a distraction.

@CatherineBabault I've seen that a few times. Pretty convincing! :-)