As the tide falls: an hour at Brancaster Staithe
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
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. Both species of geese have increased hugely in recent years.
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