We drove out to Littleferry again this morning tempted by a wonderfully still start to the day, reaching the loch as the tide turned and....
....began to flood back across the miles of empty sands and into Loch Fleet. Today's count of humans enjoying the beach was, including us, five adults and one small child but the count of birds....
....ran into the hundreds. In this picture, oystercatchers in the foreground are exploiting the seaweed growing on the rocks while....
....masses of eider are patrolling offshore, in waters calm because the light swell coming in from the North Sea was breaking across the sand bars that run parallel to the coast.
Mixed in with these birds were a few curlews, various gulls - black-headed particularly in evidence - four guillemots, and a few of the juvenile gannets that were here in such numbers on Friday. Looking out across the massed eider, on the other side of the channel that was funnelling the rising waters into Loch Fleet, we could see groups of cormorants, many of them holding out their wings to dry.
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