We walked Golspie's south beach under glorious blue skies this morning but the lack of a cloud cover last night meant that the temperature plunged, so the maximum and minimum thermometer gave us yesterday's daytime reading at nearly 20C and an overnight reading of just 4C.
There were one or two unhappy sights along the beach. This is the first dead ray we've seen washed up in ages, a small cuckoo ray stranded by the falling tide. In some ways we were quite pleased to see it: at least there is some life out in the Moray Firth. Rather less unexpectedly we also came across....
....yet another guillemot with what pathetic flesh it had pecked out by the gulls.
The oystercatchers were on the beach as usual, some standing on one leg, as were a few redshanks, while offshore we saw two gannets diving for fish and several cormorants, one of them being harassed by gulls.
One of the returners to these shores is the curlew, back from the hills where it breeds in summer, stalking the mudflats below Golspie's promenade.
We walked Golspie's south beach under glorious blue skies this morning but the lack of a cloud cover last night meant that the temperature plunged, so the maximum and minimum thermometer gave us yesterday's daytime reading at nearly 20C and an overnight reading of just 4C.
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