We drove to Littleferry this morning for a walk in the Ferry Wood where we found plenty of fungi, most of them, I suppose....
....benefitting from the death of something else.
However, we are always drawn to the beach where a high tide was bringing heavy waves onto the shore and....
....a sad collection of dead seabirds. Our noticing so many guillemots amongst them is part of a national picture of a serious problem with some of our seabirds: the Guardian -
here - reports similar stories from Northumberland to Orkney.
We also came across this death dolphin which had obviously been on the beach some time.
Much more happily, as we walked along the shore of the tidal pool just inside the narrow entrance to Loch Fleet we noticed a mass of seabirds on two sandbanks. The darker ones to the left....
....were oystercatchers while, carefully segregated to the right, were as many....
....ringed plovers.
Finally, as we approached the car, we had to give way on the path to this caterpillar, possibly that of the fox moth.
We drove to Littleferry this morning for a walk in the Ferry Wood where we found plenty of fungi, most of them, I suppose....
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