This is where one of our favourite walks - from Duke Street in Golspie along the track that passes below Dunrobin Castle - first meets the sea. Usually, in this view back towards Golspie, there are plenty of shore birds to see. This morning there was only one, a sandwich tern screeching out over the sea..
This is highly unusual as it is here that the Golspie Burn, where the local seagulls come to socialise and bathe in fresh water, meets to sea.
Happily, we were cheered up when, a little further along the coast, we spotted this collection of birds, mostly redshanks but with some oystercatchers and a couple of black-headed gulls, but they....
....weren't too keen on hanging around.
We saw little else - a ringed plover, a few more terns - so we had to content ourselves with some of the smaller things in life, including....
....an unusually dark clover flower and....
....a vole, rather mysteriously lying in the middle of the track, obviously in the last stages of dying.
Thus cheered, we had just reached the car when it started to rain.
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