With a brisk and chill westerly blowing this morning we headed for the relative protection of Balblair Wood, once again searching for the Scottish crossbill which, once again, did not put in an appearance.
We spent some time in the bird hide on the banks of Loch Fleet from which, with the tide coming in....
....we had a good view across marshland to....
....a mass of ducks and waders. Immediately obvious were the oystercatchers and curlews - there must have been well over fifty of the latter - and smaller numbers of redshanks, visible in the foreground of this picture.
While the birds in the foreground of this picture are curlews, those landing have long, straight beaks. The pictures aren't clear enough to identify them for certain but they may be bar-tailed godwits which are reported to winter on Loch Fleet.
Also on parade were small and very busy groups of what were probably sanderlings - seen in this picture - while the ducks included teal, wigeon and shelduck.
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