The weather was pretty miserable when we arrived at Littleferry this morning for a walk, with a strong northwesterly blowing under leaden skies, and with the temperature struggling to reach 4C. So we started by walking in the relative shelter of the forestry, finding....
....some fungi but not in the numbers or wealth of varieties of October/November. As the weather improved we walked to the entrance to Loch Fleet where we....
....found a large flock of oystercatchers sitting on a shingle bank exposed by the falling tide. However, once on....
....the beach we spotted five sanderling, my favourite wader and a species which has been absent these last few weeks, busy working the swash of the waves. By this time the sun was out allowing us to slow our pace and wander along an otherwise deserted beach.
On the drive home we stopped by Loch Fleet to watch the very large number of waders, ducks and gulls which had arrived to feast on mud expose by the falling tide. We hadn't been there for two minutes before....
....the whole lot took to the air. High above them we saw a large bird which could, just could have been a sea eagle.
Following the first sighting of a sea eagle on Saturday we returned to the same spot beyond Dunrobin Castle on Sunday and saw two, wheeling high above the firth and drifting gently southwards, so the idea that they are around at the moment, and that they are bothering the birds on Loch Fleet, may not be too far-fetched.
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