NAM Jerbeek 1966 Pluvialis dominica (3) 27 June Found one more nest, 4 eggs (#4) at the Mouth of Voth Lough. Took telephoto picture of the male. 28 South of Imikepink I must have been very close to a nest, although the situation was strange. There was only a male bird around, unless the female was nearby and I never saw her as she remained on the nest. The male ran in front of me and went thru a distraction display stumbling at times and slowly flapping his wings. At times he would remain in one spot and slowly flap his wings while his body appeared to be prostrate on the ground. Never saw a male do this before. Usually the female feigns injury. I wonder whether the slow wing beat in this case is borrowed from the slow wing beat flight display of the male, which somehow got devolved into a distraction display for a nest which as far as I knew was not around the spot where the bird was performing. When I withdrew from the spot the male flew to the Beach Bridge some 700 m away. Again, he was all alone, during this flight. Saw the ♀ of Nest #4 give chase to a Red back near the nest of the flover. This occurred when the female returned to the nest after I flushed her. In the absence of the flover, the Redback had been used near the nest. 29 June On two different occasions today I noticed two Golden Plovers scratch their heads by bringing the leg over the wing. Pitella and I found two more nests (#6,7) each with 4 eggs on his census plot. Later in the afternoon I found one more nest (#8) with 4 eggs, across the road from AACS.