We walked to the north of Golspie this morning, along a track which is called Queen's Drive - we assume because Queen Victoria, who was a visitor to Dunrobin Castle, drove along it - with good views south along the coast to the golf course, caravan park and Loch Fleet.
One south-facing bank along the side of the track caught our eye. Growing along it were several....
....primroses, a flower of which we saw a few some weeks ago but which has since disappeared, and the first....
....violets of the year. The paucity of primroses may be because of the weather which, while sunny during the day, brings temperatures below zero at night, and the violets seem very late in appearing.
Back at home I was on my way out with some home made bread for the small birds' lunch when a sparrowhawk took a starling not five metres from me, but collided with the utility room window and dropped the starling. It was still quivering so....
....I turned him right-side-up and left him to recover but, looking out of the kitchen window a couple of minutes later, I saw the sparrowhawk return, pick up the bird, and fly off, much to the disgust of....
....two hopeful crows.
We walked to the north of Golspie this morning, along a track which is called Queen's Drive - we assume because Queen Victoria, who was a visitor to Dunrobin Castle, drove along it - with good views south along the coast to the golf course, caravan park and Loch Fleet.
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