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Two well-grown chicks (survivors of an initial brood of four that hatched a little while ago), at the edge of the artificial hockey-field, 7th Brigade Park, Chermside. NOTE: the aerial photo/ satellite image is out of date: one half of an area that used to be greengrass playing field is now ringed with cement and covered over with plastic synthetic surfacing; the lapwing chicks are at the west edge of this obscenity that is inimical to all life. They were hatched in a very narrow strip of green that divides the new dead-zone field (east) from the one last remaining green-grass playing field (west, toward Kittyhawk Drive). No doubt that last field will be bulldozed and buried under synthetic surfacing, also, within the next ten years or so; and then the lapwings will lose their hunting-grounds altogether. (I HATE the current craze for annihilating living-grass lawns and playing-fields / sports ovals - which function as wildlife habitat as well as sportsgrounds - and burying them under lurid plastic 'syntha-"turf"', not only depriving creatures such as lapwings, straw-necked Ibis and wood ducks of foraging grounds, but also greatly exacerbating the urban heat-island effect and leaking plastic nanoparticles into the surrounding landscape).

Two well-grown chicks (survivors of an initial brood of four that hatched a little while ago), at the edge of the artificial hockey-field, 7th Brigade Park, Chermside. NOTE: the aerial photo/ satellite image is out of date: one half of an area that used to be greengrass playing field is now ringed with cement and covered over with plastic synthetic surfacing; the lapwing chicks are at the west edge of this obscenity that is inimical to all life. They were hatched in a very narrow strip of green that divides the new dead-zone field (east) from the one last remaining green-grass playing field (west, toward Kittyhawk Drive). No doubt that last field will be bulldozed and buried under synthetic surfacing, also, within the next ten years or so; and then the lapwings will lose their hunting-grounds altogether. (I HATE the current craze for annihilating living-grass lawns and playing-fields / sports ovals - which function as wildlife habitat as well as sportsgrounds - and burying them under lurid plastic 'syntha-"turf"', not only depriving creatures such as lapwings, straw-necked Ibis and wood ducks of foraging grounds, but also greatly exacerbating the urban heat-island effect and leaking plastic nanoparticles into the surrounding landscape).