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Article: Prodigal nature of ecosystem reflected in Dublin Bay
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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ANOTHER LIFE: POLISHED by a spring tide and last night's inch of
rain, the strand below us mirrors the sky in pale blue - blue and
quite bare, but for a thin, black tangle of wrack at the
tideline.Embedded there, could be the odd shattered crab or tattered
gull to feed a fox or raven, but, for all its wide reach, this
particular White Strand, wave-battered and windswept, is not often
one of nature's takeaways.
Just a few small flocks of tiny sanderlings chase the edge of the
tide, searching for miniature, cast-up prey. Ringed plovers, no
bigger than a robin, forage for the same scanty little worms and
crustaceans.
Walking there, blinking with wind-tears, you'd miss them all till
they rise ...