The Redshanks' Beach

The stormy weather has cleared giving us a still, bright morning and, at first sight, the sea seemed to have calmed along the coast to the north of us but....

....occasional heavy and quite vicious waves were still coming in to pound the beaches.

I have often wondered what the waders which normally work these beaches - oystercatchers, curlews, redshanks, ringed plovers and the like - do for a meal when the sea is so high and rough that their feeding grounds are unavailable, and today I had something of an answer because....

....in one place a small sliver of beach was left exposed, though the bigger waves kept shooting up it, and playing with those waves, just as we did as children, running up and down the sand and rather enjoying the danger....

....was a small flock of a dozen or so redshanks.