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- Title
When Clouds Take On a Life of Their Own.
- Authors
Hay, John
- Abstract
In this article the author presents an incident that happened when he was walking along the seashore. The author met two friends walking toward him near the shore. They told him to look for a rare sight ahead, out on the tides. It was almost high tide, and the sandbars offshore that form a limited barrier beach were beginning to disappear under water, leaving what looked like the tops of small islands shining brightly in the sun. They were completely white, and when the author turned his field glasses on them he could see that they were alive with birds. These were the famous sand treaders and wave chasers that feed on crustaceans in the sand all along the coastline of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. They sped by over the water in flocks that numbered at least several hundred individuals, though at that distance individuality disappeared.
- Subjects
CAPE Cod (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED States; SEA birds; SEASHORE; AQUATIC organisms; TIDES
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2003, Vol 10, Issue 2, p137
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/isle/10.2.137