For a time it looked as if our only company in this morning's damp and rather grey walk along the beach would be a lone oystercatcher but we then spotted seven birds of a species we haven't seen since the spring....
....long-tailed ducks.
There was a time when the corpses of fishes - particularly rays - were quite common along the beach but they are now a rarity. Today's one find was a small fish, perhaps a bream.
With so little visible along the beach, which is worrying, it cheered us to find the main 'pond' of Loch Fleet busy with birds, including shelduck, mallard, widgeon, oystercatchers, gulls, crows, and an unusually large number of very vocal curlews.
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