With a fine day forecast though with a slightly chill northerly blowing, we took ourselves for a long-overdue visit to Littleferry to stretch our legs along the sands - and immediately stumbled upon a small tragedy....
....a dead whooper swan lying just below the high-tide mark.
It looked as if the bird had died recently as the....
....local scavenger squad had only just started work on it.
A few steps further along the beach we came upon these tracks, three sets of them, all running up from the advancing tide line to just above last night's high-tide mark. At first I thought....
....they might be the tracks of a small otter but I now think it more likely that they were made by the whooper swan in its vain attempts to take off - perhaps to escape an attacker of some sort which kept chasing it into the sea.
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