In the absence of the hundreds of thousands of western sandpipers that Rob Butler and I have come to see, only our deep, water-filled footprints in the mud of Delta’s Brunswick Point foreshore reveal our effort to witness something extraordinary. Behind us on this late April afternoon is a shoreline Pick-up-Sticks of driftwood, salt-weed hummocks and boot-sucking intertidal runnels that mark the Fraser estuary’s vast mudflats. Each year millions of shorebirds pause here on their annual transits along the globe-spanning […]

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