I see this wonderful birds most days as I walk my standard poodle ZiZi. The birds seem to know that we mean them no harm and allow us to come quite close. Not so the Australian Curlews who also live on our estuary. I call them “100-metre birds” because that’s about as close as they will ever allow you to approach before the take off with their piping call. I even called my sailing dinghy “Curlew” but they weren’t impressed it seems.