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.
I just wanted to say that I like this photo because the bird’s shadow reminds me of the evil penguin (Feathers McGraw) in the Wallace and Grommet movie, The Wrong Trousers. That is all.
A wandering tattler flies along the Kohala coast on a bright breezy day. What’s notable about this photo is that it was taken in the afternoon and Maui is visible. The reason for that can be seen in the waves. They’re coming from the west to northwest. Waves were from the northeast are driven by the usual northeasterly trades, and those winds would have pushed cloud cover across Maui by this time of day.
This wandering tattler was probing cracks and holes in the rocks, searching for a snack. Periodically, a larger wave than usual would send the bird into the air where it looped around before settling back in the same general area.
