In hard weather they feed on the saltings and round the shore, especially where rotten seaweed abounds, with great quantities of insect life in it.
Though on the river, it is a half-marine place, with the typical sea-plants growing on the saltingsby the shore.
One of them, and to me it was a very great one indeed, was that Morstone was situated in a remote village on the east coast, on the edge of vast saltings or sea marshes intersected by great creeks of sullen, tidal water.
There are three or four on the saltings between Wells and Cromer.
Like most of the other birds found on these moors in summer they spend the winter upon the lowlands; in this case frequenting the flat coasts and marshy meadows and saltings near the sea.
The migrational movements are about the same date in Yorkshire as they are in Devonshire; and the journey extends in both localities from the high inland moors down to the marshy meadows and saltings of the coast.
Later a good many yachts were laid up on them, and as the berths were paid for the saltings were rated.
The richest moments of pleasure came when it was high water at night, and one could look over thesaltings on to the business of the great river.
To the west of us was a sea-wall, and behind it marshes stretching away into dimness; to the north was the railway line; to the south, first saltings and then the open Thames.
As soon as we came near, off he went again, tearing over the grass between the saltings and the road with our flaming sausage in his mouth.
From the road, seventy or eighty yards away, there was a path across the saltings right up to us, but as it was very muddy we bought forty or fifty bushels of cockleshells and spread them on it.
The winter passed, and with the swelling of the buds and the gift of song to the birds our corner of the world woke, too, and the yachts in the saltings began to renew their plumage.
The ebbing tide left us in a shallow dock about three feet deep into which the Ark Royal just fitted, so that with a ladder on to the saltings we could easily get on and off the ship.
Except for a few gulls, which were wheeling backwards and forwards over the sea-wall, I seemed to have the whole stretch of marsh and saltings entirely to myself.
The creek was quite small, with a steep bank one side perhaps fifteen feet high, and what looked like a stretch of mud or saltings on the other.
You can reach it either by the main road which runs half a mile inland, or by walking along the saltings under the sea-wall.
To the east, however, the saltings stretch far towards Canvey Point; and it is not only safe, but absolutely pleasant to walk over them before the tide creeps through the rough herbage.
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