This film concentrates on the behaviour of a solitary Eurasian Rock Pipit Anthus petrosus chick being fed by its parents on the shingle-covered beach in Oban Harbour. Most of the food items provided were sand-hoppers, small terrestrial crustaceans of which there seemed to be an endless supply! It would appear that the chick might have been the only surviving member of a brood as no others could be seen and although the baby was being fed (almost to excess) by its parents there were also some rather half-hearted attempts by the youngster to feed itself, suggesting that it would be unlikely that there may still be any siblings remaining on the nest. Early in the film the chick showed interest in a skipjack or click beetle but once the insect had fallen between two pebbles the chick was then given further food by one of the parent birds and it lost interest. These birds are very well protected by their subdued plumage when observed against a stony beach and they made no attempt to move away from the photographer as he stood nearby. By the time that the final sequence was filmed the chick seemed to be replete and it could barely keep its eyes open! The youngster spent quite some time on a seaweed-covered rock only a matter of feet away where it was surprisingly well camouflaged and it was left in situ after a 32 minute session of filming and photography. The location was quite close to the tide-line and it was fortunately a calm day otherwise a larger wave could have posed a genuine threat to the chick's safety.