Birding at the estuary over the Christmas break
Do the scuttle dance - by Madras Wanderer i s my Substack post on the ghost crabs I saw. And here is My Ebird trip report of the birds I spotted cross the 5 five days I wandered along the broken bridge and beaches. Where the river meets the sea Around Christmas, the tide was low in the morning. and I could stand under the pillars of the broken bridge. In the first week of the year, the tide was high when I wandered, and the broken bridge pillars were under water. I like this picture of all 3 white egrets - the little in the middle, the median on the right and the Great/Large one to the left. I enjoyed watching a Common Sandpiper one morning, walking and bobbing. The paths of the sandpiper and the Kentish Plover seemed to cross but they both ignored each other, and ignored me too. A trio of solitude-seekers it seemed. Spot-billed pelicans would flypast, as also an occasional Caspian Tern As I would walk back, away from the beach and onto the road, I would ...
