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Sat 10 Oct 2009Prodigal nature of ecosystem reflected in Dublin Bay
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.
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.
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