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dykes, with an occasional Goldeneye — generally 

 single birds, females, or young males — Little Grebes, 

 and now and then in winter the Sclavonian and 

 Eared Grebes, almost always solitary. Snipes of 

 course were scattered about, and had to be looked 

 for ; Green Sandpipers and Girey Phalaropes I 

 repeatedly saw and shot. At high tide Golden 



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Plovers and Peewits rested in the marshes ; at low 

 water they betook themselves to the harbour to feed 

 upon the recently exposed ooze, and it was remark- 

 able how well they appeared to know when the tide 

 had turned. As soon as the highest mud-banks 

 began to show above the receding water, they rose 

 in a body from the marsh, and were off to feed upon 

 the ooze. The Peewits were generally too artful, 

 and flew in too straggling a flock, to afford much 



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