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It may be\u00a0midwinter but I am busy getting together the sketches for my August book and they transport me back to bold blue skies and summer grasses.<\/p>\n

You can see redshanks throughout the summer though in less numbers than in winter . . .
\nI don’t expect all of these\u00a0redshank sketches will make it to the book but some will. \"\"<\/p>\n

They race\u00a0past the spit and along the edges of the salt marsh.\u00a0The\u00a0spartina, a salt marsh grass and one of the\u00a0first plants\u00a0to\u00a0colonise a\u00a0salt marsh, is festooned with ripening seeds.<\/p>\n

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On a low tide the August sun streams down into the depths of the muddy creek. The light plays on the patterns of mud and draws shadows around the redshank.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0I love watching the redshank deep in the creek.\"\"<\/p>\n

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