There was really no need for us to go out to Littleferry this morning to look for wildlife as it came to us, in the form of a roe doe which we've seen before from the kitchen window browsing on the young trees planted on the other side of the road.
We went anyway, and enjoyed a fine day but, as this willow warbler must have noticed, a fairly blustery one.
This crossroads of the main paths across the links usually has some of the earliest and largest populations of northern marsh orchids but this year they're running later than some of the other populations, with....
....only a few in full bloom.
We checked the short section of path through the plantation for the other Littleferry orchid, creeping ladies' tresses, to find that, although the first leaves have appeared, the flowers aren't yet out.
Back on the links the only butterflies flying were small browns, while along the beach....
....a ringed plover was behaving very much as if it had a nearby nest to worry about.
We haven't seen a jellyfish for ages, and very few last summer, so these are this year's first, a small number of moon jellyfish, stranded along the tideline.
Out to sea we spotted the first gannet of the year wheeling offshore but failed to capture its picture. So here instead is a picture a navy helicopter circling offshore, probably involved in the same exercise as the Typhoons flying overhead.
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