We were up early today to drive to Tain to a new dentist but, before leaving, while feeding the small birds, the first skein of geese of the winter passed overhead, heading not south but north, suggesting that these are one of our local, winter-resident gaggles which will return to a night-time roost at Loch Fleet.
It was difficult to tell which species the birds were, either greylags or pink-footed, but having seen them at Littleferry on Sunday I would guess it was greylags.
On our way south along the A9 we stopped on the Dornoch Firth bridge where the sun was busy burning back the early mist. The tide was rising in the firth, flooding the long banks of sand in the area looking east towards the open sea, with....
....surprisingly, perhaps worryingly few birds feeding, a single grey heron and a few gulls.
This looks west, up the firth towards Struie Hill on the south shore in Easter Ross, while, looking to the left of this....
....the little peninsula in the foreground is the Ness of Portnaculter which ends in Ferry Point, whence a ferry once crossed to Meikle on the Sutherland shore.
We were up early today to drive to Tain to a new dentist but, before leaving, while feeding the small birds, the first skein of geese of the winter passed overhead, heading not south but north, suggesting that these are one of our local, winter-resident gaggles which will return to a night-time roost at Loch Fleet.
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