This morning we walked north from Golspie along the coast path that passes between Dunrobin Castle and the sea, a walk we haven't done in some time. A few of the remaining swallows were working the insects, flying low over the mown grass, but the main interest was in....
....this triangle of rocks that sticks out into the sea. Along the shoreline we saw....
....plenty of oystercatchers probing the sand still left uncovered by the rising tide - this one making friends with a kittiwake - while further out on the rocks....
....the cormorants monopolised the positions furthest from the shore, vying with grey heron, curlew, redshank and gulls, but the real interest was in the birds in the foreground of this picture....
....sandwich terns. There must have been about fifty of them, a mixture of mature adults and this year's juveniles....
....gathering, just like the swallows, in readiness to set off on....
....their long journey to Southern Africa.
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