The Little Brown And Gray Sanderlings

The little brown and gray sanderlings I saw on the beach today From their home in the Arctic in distance far away Through the warm Spring and Summer on Australian beaches they will stay But they will return to the northern shores to hatch to life their young in May Such tiny things the sea wash in they seem to like to eat That they quickly pick from the wet sand as the waves do retreat And from the next incoming waves they quickly turn and run What's amusing to look at for one like me to them can't be much fun On the sunlit southern beaches in search of food they run about It is one of Nature's wonders that they venture this far south Of their breeding territories where for to breed they must return to again The wonders of Mother Nature beyond humans to explain My wonderment of Nature as I age only grow And the more I learn about her so little of her ways I know I know.