Text & images by Janet Wallace The mudflats at Mary’s Point are filled with visitors every summer. Millions of shorebirds arrive at the Upper Bay of Fundy from late July to early September. In their layover in the midst of their annual journey from the Canadian Arctic to South America, semipalmated sandpipers refuel by consuming invertebrates, particularly ‘mud shrimp’ (Corophium volutator). The flocks of tens of thousands of birds attract its own visitors—humans who come to watch the spectacle and peregrine falcons which come to prey upon the shorebirds. And spectacular it is, with thousands of birds wind their way through the sky, twisting and twirling as though the massive flock is one entity. |
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