With sunny skies and a brisk south-westerly in prospect we set off, once again, for Littleferry beach for a bracing walk along the sands to find that the sea had eaten much of the sand leaving us with the prospect of a long walk on cobbles. Despite this, we found some sand and a flock of my favourite waders....
....sanderling, working the freshly picked seaweed. There must have been upward of twenty of these energetic little birds, probably stopping off on their annual autumn migration south.
On our way back through the woods we disturbed a roe deer which stopped long enough to bark at us before disappearing into the trees. It was good to see it - we haven't seen roe deer in this plantation for some months.
The tide had yet to work its way in to Loch Fleet so much of the mudflats were still exposed, and for once we had birds exploiting them. We're no good at counting masses of birds but we reckoned that there must have been five hundred gulls there, a mixture of common gulls and kittiwakes, and these were joined by....
....skien after skien of very noisy geese, probably disturbed from nearby fields. It was difficult to be certain but I think these were greylag geese.
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