This was the beach at Littleferry yesterday morning, with a gentle breeze blowing and hardly another human in sight.
Along the tideline we found the occasional moon jellyfish and a few birds, including....
....these black-headed gulls, and some sandwich terns and gannets diving for fish offshore.
On the links at the back of the beach we found a flush of Scottish bluebells, and were thrilled to see plenty of butterflies including....
....a painted lady....
....a small copper (above), and plenty of small browns and common blues.
Our walk back through the woods took us close to
Loch Unes where hawker dragonflies were hunting along the path and, if we looked hard, for there were few of them, emerald damselflies could be found clinging to stalks of marsh grass, this one a male.
The highlight of our walk was finding two of these butterflies in the woods. It's a grayling, a butterfly I haven't seen in years, partly because it's so well camouflaged and also because it rests with its wings firmly closed.
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