THE BROADS
Apr 07, 2022
3 minutes
t’s early morning on the Broads. The sky is a cold, clear blue. The marshlands are filigreed with frost. Three of us are stepping quietly through the reed beds of Candle Dyke, nearing an old eel-catchers’ hut at the water’s edge, when a winter flypast stops us in our tracks. A flock of 100 punk-haired birds sails overhead, northwards towards the coast. “Lapwings”, confirms Emily Leonard, one of the two Broads Authority team members joining
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