Giant Mudskippers are big on taste - bathed in clean water for a few days - so they say. Dried and served for breakfast, they'd then become mud's kippers, I suppose. But what do I know? Only this week did I discover that 'St Peter's Fish' is the dreaded scourge of our waterways, the Tilapia. Idle thoughts while chasing Mangrove Honeyeaters along the banks of the Ross River mouth, Townsville, recently.
Silver Gull probably not too interested in name of small silver fish it chanced upon nearby.
Whimbrel came along to stalk same stretch of sand soon after. Too late. It's not only worms that go to the early bird.
Grey-tailed Tattler more at home chasing after sand worms but bridge breakwater makes safe high-tide refuge.
Also brief base out in the open for Bar-shouldered Dove before a return to the mangroves.
No Mangrove Honeyeaters (previous post)? Later . . .
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