A succession of flights of these smallest of British geese swept in low over the saltings to alight on the fresh-water flood to drink and bathe. |
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These delightful visitors from Scandinavia and northern Russia spend winter days on the windswept saltings, shingle strands and tidelines. |
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Like most waders, at high water curlew form large roosts on either the highest saltings or on fields and marshes behind the sea walls. |
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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. |
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