Southern Lapwing and eggs

Description:

In one photo, you can see a Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) and two eggs in the nest in front of her. You may need to look twice; the eggs are well camouflaged. In the other photo, you can see a close-up of the eggs itself. Southern Lapwings are extremely aggressive when defending their nest. They normally try to distract any potential threat by performing fake attacks and landing somewhere away from the nest. This parent was at first quite aggressive but soon accepted that I had already seen the nest and didn't intend to harm it. She (or he) kept her calm from then on.

Habitat:

This is a lapwing of lake and river banks or open grassland. The southern lapwing breeds on grassland and sometimes ploughed fields, and has an aerobatic flapping display flight.