The tide has advanced far enough for the beach south of Golspie to be accessible for our morning walk, a beach which is still missing a fair proportion of the sand it had this time a year ago, but enough....
....for the waders to begin their search for a nesting site, although it'll be even more difficult this year to find somewhere secure from the passing dogs. So we saw oystercatchers....
....and ringed plovers and, to the right camouflaged by the clump of seaweed, what looked like a pair of turnstones.
As we walked skein after skein of pink-footed geese passed overhead, most heading north but some, confused, simply flying in circles....
....while out to sea hundreds of eider dived in unison, surfacing to find the predatory gulls ready to attack them.
As we walked back the sky clouded and we passed through a brief snow shower, carried by a bitterly cold Arctic airstream. This is April yet last night the temperature fell to -3C and we woke once again to snow on the ground.
The tide has advanced far enough for the beach south of Golspie to be accessible for our morning walk, a beach which is still missing a fair proportion of the sand it had this time a year ago, but enough....
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