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I recently stayed the night at the Sawtell caravan
park and had a quick walk along the estuary there before I left.
There wasn't a lot to see, the best being a striated heron on a
sandbank.
I was intrigued however to see a grey-tailed
tattler together with a bar-tailed godwit obviously keeping company.
There were other tattlers and godwits in the area, but these two kept apart from
the others and never left each other. I watched for quite some time
and wherever the godwit went the tattler followed and vice versa, even when they
flew away across the river and later returned to my side.
Is this usual behaviour? Cheers Annabel
Ashworth
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