It's the time of year when one is becoming rather tired of winter and looking for the first signs of spring, yet they always seem slow in coming. The snowdrops are out but there's little other sign of change - except, perhaps in the birds along the shore.
A visit to Lidl at Tain yesterday saw me down at the waterfront looking at the ducks and waders, and there are significant changes since the last visit towards the end of January. For a start, there are many fewer birds on the scalps, only the number of oystercatchers increasing while there was....
....a huge decrease in the flocks of widgeon and....
....only small groups of teal.
However, the biggest change has been along Golspie's beach where we're no longer seeing any of the flocks of sanderling, above, or ringed plover - and we do miss them! The only waders along the beach are oystercatchers, curlews and redshanks.
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