We were in Tain today to visit Lidl but, while Mrs MW enjoyed the shopping, I wandered down to the shores of the Dornoch Firth to inspect the birds feeding on the scalps - the mudflats - exposed at low water. Today they were present in bigger numbers than on my previous visit (link
here) and....
....while there were still plenty of oystercatchers, redshanks, curlews, mallard....
....and large numbers of wigeon, some new species had appeared, including....
....teal, many in pairs. They're a very pretty little duck which I haven't seen since our days in Maldon when they used to come in to feed in winter in the Blackwater estuary.
It was also good to see flocks of shelduck in numbers I have never seen before, perhaps a hundred, but they were very shy, moving well away from land to feed on the edge of the mudflats.
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