With low tide now at 8.30 in the morning it's once again possible to get onto the sand beach to the south of Golspie before the tide comes in, but today we had to contend with a fierce southwesterly breeze blowing straight into our faces, a wind which both wove streamers of pale sand across the beach and....
....whipped the tops off the waves as they broke.
Little wonder there was almost nothing in the way of bird life along the beach, not until....
....we had passed the end of the artificial sea wall made of imported boulders to where the cobbles of the storm beach form a natural barrier, where a small movement....
....drew our attention to a group of a dozen or so waders camouflaged against the stones. Look carefully and you will find six ringed plovers, a bird we haven't seen along the beach in some weeks, and, sleeping peacefully between them with its head tucked under its wing, a single sanderling.
We walked for about an hour, heads down against the wind, before turning back, at which point the wind promptly dropped and we walked home with warm sunshine on our backs.
No comments:
Post a Comment