Today's was a beautifully still morning with occasional spells of sunshine, but cold, the temperature reluctant to rise above 2C so, for our daily exercise we drove out to Littleferry, spending some time looking out across the inner basin of Loch Fleet but finding very little in the way of wildlife - the ducks at bottom left of the picture are....
....widgeon, part of a small flock of about ten, which....
....didn't hang around once they spotted us.
A pair of red-breasted merganser were much less shy, though the male seemed rather more concerned about our proximity than the female.
In the outer basin of the loch very little moved, the main exceptions being....
....this lone oystercatcher working the seaweed and....
....a stately grey heron.
Once again we noticed the lack of birds. Even where a species was present, it was only there in small numbers.
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