Friday, September 11, 2020

Rainbow Season

It's rainbow season in the Highlands which, when we lived on the west coast, usually meant October, but the early arrival of cold westerlies here in Sutherland seems to have brought the start of the season forward. This picture was taken from the Dornoch bridge this morning as we drove on one of our occasional forays to Tain, Mrs MW to go to Lidl for an hour's retail therapy while....

....I took a walk along Tain's 'promenade', which runs along the scalps, the mudflats which line the Dornoch Firth. This picture looks up the firth to where the Glenmorangie distillery stands on a point, to the right of which can be seen the Dornoch bridge.

Last winter proved this to be a favourite site for over-wintering wildfowl but it's obviously too early for the numbers we saw when we first came to Tain, though the occasional....

....redshank was already probing the muds while ducks included....

....a scattering of widgeon in their winter plumage...,

....teal, shelduck and mallard, while a single swan could be seen far out on the distant edge of the mud.

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