Watching from the Breydon Bridge observation hide at high tide, I suddenly became aware of hundreds of dunlin taking wing and climbing high above the saltings. |
It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse. |
At Kaolak River a dunlin was feeding and flying with a group of four semipalmated sandpipers. |
He would tell of immense flocks of widgeon, of banks of brent geese, and clouds of dunlin. |
The possibility of arctic birds like the red knot and the dunlin disappearing from Scotland's shores is yet another symptom of a sickening planet. |
Next day in the same general area where winds had driven water on the sand, four semipalmated sandpipers were feeding with dunlin. |