Rising Tide

We walked the beach below Dunrobin Castle this morning, the sky covered with a high overcast but promising a fine day. The rising tide was beginning....

....to put pressure for space on the cormorants which like to sit on the rocks just offshore while....

....the grey heron was hunting for its meal in the floating seaweed....

....and the curlew looked for its prey amongst the boulders.

We saw little else in the way of shore birds: a few gulls, including a black-backed gull, and a couple of oystercatchers, but the usual birds we'd like to find at this time of year, particularly redshanks, turnstones and sanderling, were missing.