We woke to another spectacular sunrise, it's warm colours at variance with the day as it developed - grey, still, cold and damp - but not depressing enough to put us off our planned walk....
....along the coast path to the north of Golspie.
The light was poor, but the falling tide provided ideal conditions for finding and photographing the shore birds which so often congregate along this stretch of beach. Nor were we disappointed, starting with....
....a rather solitary goldeneye. We've not seen this very neat little duck recently but on previous occasions they have been in pairs.
We spotted half a dozen oystercatchers, several of them asleep, and as many redshanks, though none of the latter offered an opportunity to have its portrait taken.
We also saw a lone grey heron and about twenty cormorants, some of them....
....juveniles.
Finally, having seen a couple of curlews working the rocks beside the oystercatchers and redshanks, we managed to take a picture of six of them probing for worms in the winter barley.
We're still in the grip of winter. Although most of the snow has gone at lower levels, the melt water has frozen to form patches of black ice. A fellow walker we met warned us to take care along the paths as he had slipped and fallen.
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