I was sat in the cafe having not long arrived eating a toasted teacake, when Lawrence came back from walking the seawall and showed us a great image of a Turnstone feeding along the tideline. Having not seen one at Rainham this year I gobbled down my teacake and headed off. The tide was coming in and within 20 minutes the Turnstone's preferred feeding area was underwater, but fortunately it flew closer to where i was sat and was now just feet away from me, so reminiscent of Southend Pier.
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| Tide is coming in |
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| But, the Turnstone is not moving! |
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| It's feet are now getting wet |
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| Doggedly hanging on! |
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| Not until it's feeding area was covered did it move! |
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| Just in the nick of time too! |
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| And it flies towards even closer to me! |
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| Image is hardly cropped it was that close! |
