....Dunrobin Castle and the sea. Our purpose was to see whether this section of the coast was as good as usual in the variety of shore birds it offers.
We started with the usual crows - jackdaws and rooks - and a selection of gulls, mostly of the common variety, along with three starlings and a pair of pipits, before seeing our first wader, a lone redshank. A little further along the beach we found six oystercatchers and three....
....five cormorants and....
....a grey heron. However, the top birds of the day as far as I was concerned were....
....a pair of sandwich terns each sitting on its own rock until a busy-body oystercatcher chased them away.
So a fair variety was certainly there but the numbers were low. It's likely that most are away on nests and will return, with young, in due course.
Ask anyone to go out and photograph the birds that they see and I'm certain, the result would be illusive dots on a blurred landscape. Your photographic tallent is always appreciated and especially today; wow! Just look at that curlew!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words, Derryck. As I keep saying, much of the credit for a good picture goes to the amazing technology of modern cameras. Mine is old, now, but it still delivers the goods.Jon
DeleteMy partner and I walked from Brora to Golspie yesterday and spotted a few birds along the way. We had no idea what a few of them were, so your post was really helpful! Thanks for sharing 😊
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