The Sanderling And Turnstone Are Back In Killarney

The sanderling and turnstone are back in Killarney from their Arctic breeding grounds far away
I see them searching for insects and sea lice amongst the kelp on the foreshore on this mild and sunny August day
They have made the thousands of kilometers aerial journey for to see in the southern calendar Spring
They are such amazing small waders but then Nature is an amazing thing
Their kind does not recognize borders these travelers of the World sky
Every year in their long migrations thousands of kilometers they do fly
They travel far south of their birthplace and return again there to breed
Amongst the most nomadic of shorebirds they are World travelers indeed
From their breeding grounds by the Arctic ocean a journey of twenty thousand kilometers or more
To Killarney in South West Victoria a beach on the Pacific shore
They always seem quite fearful of people they take to the sky if they sense danger to them is near
Like most other wildborn creatures of being preyed upon they do fear
The sanderlings and turnstones are back in Killarney to see in the southern calendar Spring
They are such amazing small creatures but then Nature is such an amazing thing.