As the tide falls: an hour at Brancaster Staithe
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The first bird to draw my eye was a fine adult Grey Plover, or what is known in America as a Black-bellied Plover, sitting characteristically hunch-backed just a few yards from my car, on the edge of the tide. A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. These were dark-bellied birds from Russia.
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