When I was down at Kiholo recently, I saw this wandering tattler at the shoreline, hunting around for a bite to eat. I followed it for a while, from a distance.
It snagged a katydid at one point (second photo), but I didn’t see it catch anything else. It spent a fair amount of time around one particular rock (third photo), which caused a good deal of consternation for the a’ama crab that was there. I think the crab was a bit too big to fall into the category of prey for this particular bird.
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Lovely pics Graham and an interesting bird. I had not heard of Tattlers before. Thanks for the introduction.
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I hadn’t heard of them either before I moved here, but that’s true of a lot of birds!
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Great photos and story Graham. Maybe the crab was thinking that the Tattler was too big for a meal as well 😀 😀
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Might have been. I doubt it was too worried. Those crabs are very speedy.
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Not met a slow small crab. I don’t think coconut crabs move all that fast 😀😀
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It’s dog eat dog, isn’t it? Well…bird think about eat crab 🙂 🙂 Great shots, Graham.
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Thanks, Jo. We like to think of nature as warm and fuzzy, but it can be pretty brutal at times. Many creatures spend their lives looking for prey while trying to avoid that fate for themselves!
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What on earth is a katydid?
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It’s like a grasshopper or cricket. They’re pretty common around here.
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