Lapwings can get very stroppy when they are breeding and it is not unusual for the males to exert some of their energies on us humans wandering by along the trails. They descend on whooshing wide wings, performing mad switchback moves and making that weird mechanical, rasping call that gives them one of their old names of Peewit.
Focusing in on Michael Frankling below!
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Howard Vaughan, Information Officer