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Backyard and Beyond
Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world. "The place to observe nature is where you are."—John Burroughs
This work by Matthew Wills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Backyard and Beyond 
Perhaps it is better to be in a place known to be populated by assasins than to relax your guard in a safer place. While there are places safer than others, there is no risk free location. Kildeer are pretty good at camouflage and deception. In that way they are probably smarter than their predators.