The National Parks and Wildlife Service ranger is the guardian of a tiny sand island within Towra Point Nature Reserve near Sydney Airport which endangered Little Terns use to lay their eggs after flying all the way from Japan and eastern Asian wetlands.
That means at this time of year he's keeping careful watch over the terns' tiny speckled eggs, laid in small depressions in the sand, and the miniscule, camouflaged chicks that have already successfully hatched and are sheltering under knee-high plants called sea rocket.
But sometimes a tern will lay eggs where Christmas king tides could swallow them."So I'll put down a foundation of sandbags and then make a sort of sand castle on top of the bags to raise them above any big high tide and make a little depression in the top, like a natural nest and put on rubber gloves to mask my scent and put the egg on top," Jason said. Read Full
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