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Posted: Wed May 30th, 2012 12:31

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Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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Interesting Eric, I had a chat with one of the wardens, he mentioned a similar strategy. The Little Terns seem unable to distinguish which areas are submerged by the higher tides and seem not to make any effort to keep to higher ground.

The birds themselves seem to have difficulty finding their nests or scrapes, hovering for some seconds before plummeting down to the nest. On occasions they relaunch still with Sand Eel in beak to search again for the right nest.

I can see they are contributing to their own demise.

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