This morning we walked the ancient trackway that runs along the coast to the northeast of Golspie and was once the main highway to Wick and the Orkney Islands, a walk we used to follow often when we lived at the other end of the village. Sadly, the weather was miserable, grey clouds which occasionally produced a thin, sleety rain, ice underfoot from last night's frost, a light but biting northerly wind, and....
....only the very occasional, very watery sunny interval.
There was little wildlife visible to cheer us. Even the gulls seemed to have moved elsewhere, and there was no sign of the rock doves which usually over-winter along this shore. However, we did see this patient grey heron....
....the usual cormorants, a curlew, a redshank, and a handful of oystercatchers.
The only thing perhaps worthy of attention was this plant, growing just above the storm line at the top of the beach, a plant we haven't seen before. Could it be a sedum, an escapee from a nearby garden?
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