Off beaten track

Did you do it! Everybody who has spent time in the rural parts of Sri Lanka is accustomed to the Red-Wattled Lapwing�s accusatory call which you can hear at all times of the day and even night. Of course the rather bewildered juvenile Brahminy Kite still looked a bit taken aback as the screaming Lapwing couple thundered in as he sat somnambulant on a branch by the tank we had parked at. We hadn�t seen any of the drama that had unfolded before. Perhaps the innocent look the Kite had on was a ruse and he had been busted trying to raid the Lapwing�s nest a few moments ago. But the Lapwings certainly were giving it to the Kite, dive-bombing him fearlessly. The Kite responded with his best Kung Fu moves before eventually deciding discretion was the better part of valour and departing post haste.