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Field note · Sat 14 Nov 2026

The heron at the sluice

The wader count started at half past five with the tide already falling. By six the flats below the sluice gate were open mud, and a single grey heron had taken the channel edge, where the outflow keeps a strip of water moving even at low tide.

It stood so still for so long that the tide came back to meet it.
— Mira Okafor, wader count

Eleven minutes by the watch, then one strike and a flounder. The curlew along the creek edge never lifted, which says more about the heron’s patience than any count will.

Marks and variation

bracket
Two booms after dusk, then nothing but the rail.
— Jo Lindqvist, reed bed log
calm
The saltings only look empty from the sea wall.
— Tom Achterberg, warden