This is the entrance to Loch Fleet, seen this morning at low tide with the tides at neaps - that is, there is the smallest height difference between low and high tides in the cycle; and....
....this is a view from the beach looking back towards the Loch Fleet entrance, with shingle exposed where the waves have removed the sand.
There were relatively few birds working the exposed beach, calm, shallow waters, and seaweed-covered rocks: a few redshanks (pictured), a good number of oystercatchers, cormorants and eider, a handful of guillemots - always a relief to see some of them - various seagulls, and....
....a dozen of my favourite wader, the always-busy little sanderling.
At the back of the beach, just above the highest tide line, we had the pleasure of finding, in amongst the last hangers-on from summer, several sea rocket plants in full bloom.
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