The forecast has been good for the last couple of days with a promise of sunshine and very light winds from the east - the worst direction as they can bring in a sea mist, the haar, from the air's contact with the still-cold North Sea waters. The haar's been around for two days and it hung around throughout our two-hour wander along the beach at Littleferry, where....
....there was precious little to see other than a few waders - oystercatchers and ringed plovers - gulls and small groups of eider, so we....
....walked back along the links, where there was rather more happening.
For a start, we found the first heath milkwort of the season in amongst the damp grasses and....
....this very pretty pink flower which, frustratingly, I've been unable to identify.
Near it we found two eggs lying amid the grass stalks, one broken, almost certainly those of a skylark, but there was no sign of a nest nearby.
The forecast has been good for the last couple of days with a promise of sunshine and very light winds from the east - the worst direction as they can bring in a sea mist, the haar, from the air's contact with the still-cold North Sea waters. The haar's been around for two days and it hung around throughout our two-hour wander along the beach at Littleferry, where.... 
It looks like a saxifrage to me, Jon.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Hilary. It's very pretty and, as far as we could see, all by itself. We didn't see it last year. Jon
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