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Among the many sandpipers that visit our shoreline, surely the sanderling is one of the more intriguing. This afternoon I watch a clutch of the small birds. Short-billed, plumed in gray above with white bellies, they are examples of perpetual motion at water’s edge, searching indefatigably for bits of food at water’s edge. One of their attributes is that they are incredibly fast walkers, quickly outdistancing other, larger shorebirds. — Diary, autumn 2009
From the diary of beach walker George Thatcher, a retired banker, of Gulfport. E-mail: fishcrow@aol.com. A fourth volume of Thatcher’s work, “A Decade of Beach Walks,” is available in bookstores and gift shops and at the South Mississippi Store link to sunherald.com.
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