The weather has swung back again to a strong easterly bearing horizontal, wet drizzle, nothing spectacular - the wind gusting to 30mph perhaps - just unpleasant. Not unpleasant enough, however, to stop us taking our daily constitutional along the coast where the waves....
....were washing in old tyres along with the weed. One thing that has been good about the local beaches is that they are generally rubbish-free and to see these here as well as at Littleferry on Sunday suggests that someone is dumping them offshore.
Along with the tyres we found a crippled cormorant, unable to fly and only capable of fluttering a short distance away when we approached to within a couple of metres. What we found touching was that....
....another cormorant was quite determined to stick with the injured one.
Otherwise, the coast was blown clear of most wildlife, just a few gulls, the inevitable crows, three curlews, some pipits, and the flock of a hundred or so rock doves which, if last winter is typical, will stay with us well into next year.
The weather has swung back again to a strong easterly bearing horizontal, wet drizzle, nothing spectacular - the wind gusting to 30mph perhaps - just unpleasant. Not unpleasant enough, however, to stop us taking our daily constitutional along the coast where the waves....
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