With the skies at last clear, the sun out, and skeins of pink-footed geese passing overhead and calling on their morning migration north, we decided to....
....walk up past Rhives Farm into the woodland that clothes the lower slopes of Beinn Bhraggie, a walk we haven't done for some time. This is one of the pleasures of living in Golspie, that there is such a wealth of routes available for us to walk that some of them become neglected.
Not all the past week's snow has thawed, and as we negotiated the lower slopes there was still a keen wind to keep us focussed, but one of the features of this walk are....
....the sudden views southwards over the village and the Moray Firth.
We are moving into a relatively early winter, with snow again last night and temperatures dropping below zero, so this isn't an ideal time for finding wildlife. These are puffballs which have already puffed their spores, and....
....this is, I think, white coral fungus. Otherwise, we saw only two other fungus species.
As we were walking home down the road from Golspie Tower and discussing the apparent dearth of small birds on our walk, a mass of them flew over, some landing in this tree. They're yellowhammers. Unlike the greenfinches, of which we've seen no evidence in many weeks and which the BTO is now saying is, once again, very threatened, at least this finch species appears to be doing well.
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