Rain, Rain....

It continues to rain day after day, the clouds almost constantly down over the hills and any brightness brief. This doesn't....

....prevent us from taking a daily walk, this morning along Golspie beach in a light but relatively warm northerly which brought incessant showers, some heavy.

At least the sand which the sea took away during the recent northeasterly gales is beginning to reappear on the lower beach but other than....

....a small group of oystercatchers and a lone curlew, who wasn't in the mood to hang around, there was very little to find or see along the incoming tideline so....

....we spent a fair bit of time standing looking up as skein after skein of geese, probably greylags, passed over. This picture, by a quick count, contains some 350 birds, and there were more to the right.

At a guess a thousand birds were heading north this morning and, by past experience, they'll be flying over again, going south, this afternoon. However, they don't pass over at the same time each day and, other than that they spend some time feeding on the mudflats of Loch Fleet to the south of us, we still don't know the purpose of this daily migration.