Low Tide

Mr Curlew stalks the low-tide line checking the territory he'll rely on for food this winter, finding others who have recently returned to Golspie's beach including....

....redshanks with their legs still startlingly orange and....

....dunlin whom he doesn't mind because they don't probe his private mud but work their way through the seaweed-covered rocks, but they're joined by....

....some unlikely intruders including a small flock of 'brown jobs', perhaps pipits, several pied wagtails, and....

....a rook who really oughtn't to be here but instead probing farmers' fields for earthworms.