A few months ago, my wife was out mowing the lawn and apparently there was Plover family that had taken up residence in the grass and every time she approached this one area the Plovers would swoop her.

I distinctly remember my wife out on our lawn with the mower off to scared to go back into that part of the lawn yelling at the Plovers and shaking her fist at them "You don't pay our mortgage so you don't get a say in what I do with my lawn!"  


The battles with Australian wildlife are an everyday occurrence just... not quite what everyone thinks.