As the tide falls: an hour at Brancaster Staithe
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. Many years ago the journal British Birds published a note from an observer who had watched Turnstones scavenging from a human corpse that had washed up on the tideline. As the tide fell, it exposed sand banks that attracted small parties of garrulous Brent Geese.
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