The recent high waters have had a devastating impact on many birds that breed in fragile coastal and wetland eco-systems. However, things have been saved for some young tern chicks as an intrepid emergency measure was deployed to rescue them from their quickly submerging shingle banks. Have a look at the article in the Mail here.
Warden Intern at Otmoor.
Nice to get a little bit of good news from all the flood stories,thanks Ian.
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
A similar story here in Lancashire last month http://www.boltonconservation.org.uk/page12.htm
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This one of the rafts in question
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