Grey-tailed Tattlers nest in the remotest and wildest mountain country of Siberia. They move south for the northern winter, mainly along the east coast of Asia but also across the south-western Pacific Ocean. They are more commonly seen in the north of Australia between September to April. 
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Their nests weren’t discovered by humans until 1959! This one is a little late leaving ...
Wow, that's quite a find. Thank you for the special treat!
They are very rare vagrants to western North America and western Europe, Red Mojo. However closely related to North America's Wandering Tattler. She doesn't have much time to fly to Siberia! I wonder how many days it takes to fly there with wings...
Awfully posh totty then :-D
The colours and sharpness of these photographs are fantastic - you can almost smell the ozone!
Love how you have caught the wave in action!
There must be an abundance of her favourite cuisine to remain at the rock pool Miladysa :) HAHHAAA, photographing in the height of Summer would only show ozone and no bird!
You post at such a furious rate, you must love the briny smell of the ocean to get all these photo's.
Did you see the news report last night saying that Australia could lose up to 75% of it's migratory bird species mostly due to habitat loss. Freaky! No more Tattlers... well, I guess I was always told not to tattle.
A post a day keeps the stress away G3TFilms :) YES! They say our migratory population has plummeted by up to 75 per cent over the last 25 years! Their feeding grounds have been lost with agricultural development and general encroachment. Where this tattler was found has a rich and vibrant ecology which is becoming more rare... thanks for tattling and arousing adjectives HAHA :)
NOW! I am UTTERLY jealous! Jealous of the sound of the waves and the smell of the sea, and jealous that you have these sea birds!!!!!!
;o)
"Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside, I do like to be beside the sea!!!!" Time for a holiday on the coast Simon? Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o"!
Tatler is a British society magazine published by Condé Nast Publications and only migrates when someone goes on holiday with it.
The original Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele near an olde cake shoppe called 'Olde Cake u-Likke.' He used a nom de plume of "Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire" and juggled mice before breakfast, the first such consistently adopted journalistic juggler persona, which adopted in the first person, as it were, the seventeenth-century genre of "characters", as first established in English and Swahili by Sir Thomas Overbury who could not juggle anything, and soon to be expanded by Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristics (1711) which were too big to juggle.
It carries articles on a broad range of topics from quantum chromodynamics to carpet particles, but its primary focus is on social trends amongst the upper socio-economic hat society. Tatler is currently edited by Geordie Greig who is a competent juggler with some flair, and who was previously the literary editor of the Sunday Times some times. Tatler is named after Richard Steele's paper of the same name in the early 18th century, therefore ipso fasto, the name looks the same because it is the same word. He co-founded this second same word with Joseph Addison after meeting at Charterhouse School up a tree.
Ermmmmm NO NO NO Professor Fufu-u! Now I know why Miladysa called this Grey-tailed Tattler an awfully posh totty! Heehee!! You misread the spelling - this is a Tat(t)ler!!! Where are your reading glasses?
Wonderful! Isn't it fun when we get a glimpse of the rare ones? I love the yellow legs.
I have two tattlers in my house. ;) Just this evening Charlotte came running and said, "Mooooom, Iris is picking paint off the picnic table!" I said, "You're tattling, Charlotte." And she replied, "But she's really doing it!
Oh.
Tsup*!* My dear you do fly in the most interesting of circles *!*
Saw that report last night too :( ... what do they expect if they keep buldozing those tall brown and green things over
By tall brown and green I hope you don't mean the Celtics. *Ba-boom* One for the American crowd... sorry.
And apparently it doesn't even take a full forest to do the trick so I've heard. They've shown you can support much larger numbers of wildlife just by making sure there are green corridors between protected bush/nesting sites.
I love their yellow legs also Melissa! I was intent on not letting this one know I was there because they tend to "crouch" when threatened like a crocodile under water showing eyes and no legs! Maybe you could try being a crocodile around your tattlers – SMILE :)
Professor Fufu –u, I’ve just found out her journey will take 5 or 6 days usually at an altitude from 3 to 5 kilometers! This is with NO break from the relentless demands of staying aloft – including NO food and water. She must be enjoying her holiday too much to leave or is not fat enough ;)
I try not to fly in circles but it can happen when photographing those who are in flight Bimbimbie – Heehee *Tsup*!* Tsup*!*
*Sigh* Sounds like tall brown and green things are already extinct where you live G3Tfilms! Recently, ultra-light satellite transmitters have been fitted to waders to build a detailed picture of their flight on flyways across the planet! We must all try to keep those corridors as green as possible!! I don't mean eat lots of spinach :O
I miss visiting you but I must go for now. HELLLLLOOOOOOOW THERE AND SEe you l a t e r !!!...
Tsup*!*What makes me so crossed eyes and featherless is those nameless ones who decide to remove the tall brown and green things (not Celts g3t*!*) so that roofline to roofline houses can sit behind a pretty fence with painted trees and all kinds of birds and animals just to let the little children know what used to live there once upon a time Tsup*!*
I can hear the roar of those waves through your photos ... gorgeous day.
Helllllooooow Ces! See you later!!!! I think you're flying in circles right now ;)
I can hear you Sqwark *!* Sqwarking*!* Bimbimbie! Crossed eyes and featherless is the best of your complaint! Apart from hearing the waves roaring :)
PS: Posting early with Blogger Draft's scheduled posting tomorrow because not sure when close to computer on my school holiday morning. Miladysa, your ducks in the dell have vanished! Still waiting for bird photographs taken by Melissa :) *Tsup*!* Tsup*!* Bimbimbie!!
I'm actually lucky enough to live near a swamp. It's a very pretty swamp. Mooncar and I are able to walk for an hour or two without having to leave the canopy of the trees that grow in the ground considered too water logged to grow houses and fences. Our problem isn't lack of trees it's water born plastic marauders. But we are only 30 minutes from the city by train.
We'd love for the garbage catchment devices that are meant to strain the stormwater pipes of plastic to be redesigned.
The only problem with blogger drafts is people with google reader, like me, can read them before they actually post! Yes, that's right!!!
Thanks for the honorable mention!!!
;)
I agree swamps are pretty without plastic suffocating the wildlife GT3Films! Your mutant supervillains could be removed by a long stick especially during the next drought. I'll be posting about plastic in swamps for the next BLOG ACTION DAY!
Thanks for telling me Red Mojo! There are only two of you that will read that post early - next week you can read FIVE posts early because I'll be on holidays ;) Hey, you WON an AWARD! Go up and say your speech in the right post! Heehee.
Between your bird pictures and the seaside, I'm in awe! You take such beautiful pictures!!
AWWWWW thankyou TsDuff :) Careful, you might get a mouthful of salt!
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