With another beautiful day in prospect, and having scraped a thick layer of frost off the car, we drove to the start of one of our favourite walks, along the old coast path to the north of Golspie, passing below Dunrobin Castle and....
....on into the woodland beyond where, amongst the dead leaves from last year's fall, we spotted....
....the first flowers of this year's snowdrops. These seem early. On the evidence of previous years we would be expecting them in mid-February but after a cold start January has been exceptionally warm, which has probably brought them on.
We get a bit excited about snowdrops, thinking of them as the first flowers of the year, but....
....the gorse has been in bloom non-stop, even through the coldest weather.
We didn't see much in the way of wildlife: an oystercatcher, a curlew, a handful of redshanks, a dozen or so cormorants, the usual flock of fifty or so rock doves, and two grey herons.
With another beautiful day in prospect, and having scraped a thick layer of frost off the car, we drove to the start of one of our favourite walks, along the old coast path to the north of Golspie, passing below Dunrobin Castle and.... 
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