[pmrid (Peter)]

This is a Masked Lapwing (also called Masked Plover and Spur-winged Plover). They nest in open grass areas and when they've laid their clutch of green spangled eggs, become strongly protective and aggressive.

Here is a nesting bird that has chosen to set up house in the middle of a path our cattle take to get to and from water. And it is showing both it's Lone Ranger mask for which it is named and also it's quite nasty-looking wing spurs which are the basis of its reputation and it's alternate name. It could do a nasty Zorro number on you if it could.

Peter