On a day of bright sunny intervals....
....strong westerlies bringing sudden heavy showers and the consequent accompanying....
....rainbows, we walked from the Littleferry road through Ferry Woods to an almost completely deserted beach - deserted both of shore birds and of all but two other humans. However, we found a few eider in the mouth of Loch Fleet, through which the rising tide was running strongly, steadily....
....inundating the sandbars in the outer section of the loch where....
....a mixed flock of oystercatchers, ringed plovers and dunlin had collected.
The inner section of the sea loch had more birds on it than we have seen in a long time, including....
....a large flock of widgeon.
Winter is coming in quickly now. Most of the deciduous trees have lost their leaves and the brief warm spell of the latter part of last week has given way to much colder temperatures, with sub-zero temperatures and the first snow forecast for later this week.
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