Too Many Hoodies are ...

 ... Never Enough!  Thanks Roy and HG!

We went down the Stairway to Heaven this afternoon from the Davis Beach Car Park.  Headed down the beach and very close to where the cut through to the estuary hits the beach we were very pleased to see 3 Hooded Plovers.  All looked to be in adult plumage.

We proceeded along the beach towards Betka and to our surprise found a further 3... then 4 ... and finally 5.  Our eyes, and more importantly binoculars, showed the 3 we had seen a few hundred metres back were still there so that is 8!  To begin with the Betka crew were marginally uncooperative and I thought I might have to settle for a snap of 4.

However they finally got their act into gear and here are all 5 in one frame (after backing off a tad to fit them all in).  It gives a pretty good show of the difference between adult and (I think) Immature plumage.

I like this snap as showing the size difference between the Hoodies and the gull.