Growing

Tattler hunting

After Iain and Paul laid down the gauntlet by spotting the wandering tattler long reef, Allan and I thought we were in with a good chance to see it as well. After all Iain and Paul only have half a functioning eye between them. We didn't time things very well and it took us two hours to drive from marrickville to dee why and when we got there the tide was most of the way in and the bird was nowhere to be seen. Lucky there were some other critters to look at with a few Glaucus atlanticus about keeping the local blue bottle population down.




There was a rock platform in the distance and after some deliberation we decided that it was worth a look especially after driving for so long to get there.

Lucky the water was not too deep.


The bird in question.

Boat harbour

A few weeks back after not doing much over the weekend Allan gave me a call to see if I wanted to make a trip to boat harbour to look for a Red Knot.

As usual there was a fine selection of waders and we were struggling to find the right bird. But luckily there was someone there who knew what they were doing and we soon had some good views.


Sadly I couldn't get any good photos.


Some of the other birds showed up a little better though.