We drove to Littleferry again this morning for a more lengthy exploration of the woods along the east shore of Loch Fleet, following a well-used path through the pines. We had assumed from the Scottish Wildlife Trust's map of the reserve that this area wasn't part of it but the notices and....
....some conveniently placed benches suggest that the woods are maintained by the trust.
It was a beautiful sunny morning but with enough of a chill westerly blowing to prevent us from hanging around, though we did spend some minutes....
....watching the seals pulled up on the rapidly-reducing sandbanks in the middle of the loch. Most were evidently adults, with an accompaniment of cormorants, but....
....with some, paler-coated young. Watching seals is only a little more exciting than watching paint dry so we carried on round the loch until we could see....
....the small settlement of Littleferry, the first time we've seen it from the west, with the mouth of Loch Fleet beyond.
We found plenty of new fungi to add to the rapidly-expanding photo collection, of which this was the most interesting. I haven't been able to identify it yet and am not even sure that it is a fungus.
We drove to Littleferry again this morning for a more lengthy exploration of the woods along the east shore of Loch Fleet, following a well-used path through the pines. We had assumed from the Scottish Wildlife Trust's map of the reserve that this area wasn't part of it but the notices and....
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