We are very fortunate to live within a five minute walk of this beach which combines sandy stretches with pebbles and clumps of weed, and which also, at low tide, exposes....
....low promontaries of kelp-slick boulders on which the shore birds like to relax. Some days there are hardly any to be seen, though there are always a few gulls, and some days there are more. Today was fairly good for a wander along the beach, but what one noticed was how most species seem to like the company of others - so here we have cormorants with a grey heron and a gull, while....
....a little further along an oystercatcher was keeping company with a curlew, and elsewhere the oystercatchers were feeding alongside gulls. These species don't always seek out company: the curlews in particular....
....seem quite happy to nap alone.
Of the species along the shore today - and there are still some conspicuously missing, like the ringed plovers - only one shunned the company of other species, keeping in small groups of its own or....
....relaxing alone, and that was the turnstones. They may be antisocial but these are the first turnstones we've seen here in some weeks so it's good to have them back.
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