We sat in warm sunshine for some time this morning looking at this view across the deserted beach to the north of Littleferry, deserted not only of humans but also of most life, there being nothing washed up along the tide line and hardly a bird in sight, so we gave up on the beach and....
....walked along some of the maze of paths that criss-cross the links, finding....
....this tiny butterfly which is, I think, a small blue, one of the rarest of the blue family and a species we haven't seen since June of last year. Mrs MW also spotted....
....another small butterfly, the first small heath of the year.
We then left the links and walked up into Ferry Woods where this lochan, Loch Unes, is one of the best places for dragon and damsel flies - and we found that the first of the damselflies was already out....
....with several large reds sunning themselves on the paths. This is early for them as, again, we didn't see any of this species on the wing until June last year.
Loch Unes is steadily being choked by bog bean with its very pretty flowers, and some sort of horsetail. Despite this, it remains one of the best places locally for dragon and damselflies.
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