By the time we were ready for our walk today the temperature was falling from a miserable lunchtime maximum of 1.2C, which felt even more raw by the dampness in the atmosphere and a persistent low cloud cover, so we were only out for an hour, along the shore towards Dunrobin Castle. The short day was already drawing to a gloomy close so looking for otters was fairly hopeless but the walk was made worthwhile when....
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....we put up a group of no less than fourteen curlews from amongst the seaweed-encrusted rocks exposed by the falling tide. Curlews are on the 'Birds of Conservation Concern - 5' red list so we obviously have more than our fair share of this wader with its haunting call.
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