On another grey morning with hardly a breath of wind we were walking along the coast track to the northeast of the village, passing Dunrobin Castle and enjoying....
....distant views across the Dornoch Firth to the lighthouse at Tarbat Ness, when we noticed, sitting on the rocks exposed by low tide....
....four grey seals. This is the first time we've seen them hauled up to the north of the town though there's no shortage of them in Loch Fleet.
Walking up through the woods we came across this fungus, the largest part of it almost a foot across. It may be another dryad's saddle.
This is monkey flower,
Mimulus guttatus, hiding amongst the buttercups.
We passed two sites within the castle grounds where northern marsh orchids are thriving but along a damp track we found a new site, its sole orchid....
....at first glance appearing to be another northern marsh but I think it's either a rather brightly coloured common spotted orchid or a marsh/common spotted hybrid. If so, this is the first site we've identified locally with this hybrid species.
On another grey morning with hardly a breath of wind we were walking along the coast track to the northeast of the village, passing Dunrobin Castle and enjoying....
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