How do I deal with Plovers nesting in my yard?Last spring, they nested in my back yard and were quite aggressive. They eventually moved on because my mowing guy got the nest on accident. My house has no parameter fencing, so I take my dog out every few hours to go to the toilet. I figured this season I would leave the back to the plovers and walk my dog out the front. No dice, they have taken control of the entire yard now and try swooping constantly. My dumb dog only wants to go to the toilet near the spot the birds are, so the birds are trying to swoop her a lot and she doesn't even notice. I am sick of trying to fend off the birds every time my dog needs to piss. It gets worse because if I even try to leave the yard, we have to pass by the birds and then one of them stalks us and tries swooping even though we are several streets over. What do I do? I don't want one of those barbs hitting my dog and I don't want my dog to go aggro trying to get at them. She's a big girl and can easily drag me around if she wants to. I live in QLD Australia, so its kind of illegal to simply kill the birds, though it would be a swift solution.
>>5059962You need to challenge them to a sword fight
>>5059962They risk more injury to themselves if making contact with their spurs, they're purely for intimidation. Swooping can be safely ignored imo (magpies actually use their beaks, so are automatically a bigger threat). Hard to say what to do about you dog going aggro on them though. Lapwings are very chill outside of breeding, so the only thing I can suggest is to keep and eye out next spring and prevent them from setting up their nest altogether (if they don't pick somewhere else).
