It's a wee bit depressing when the last walk of 2021, at Littleferry with the tide just beginning to fall, found the beach deserted of wildlife but with far too much in the way of....
....'deadlife', including this guillemot - the most common of the divers to find washed up - and....
....two seals, this one which looks like a juvenile, and a much smaller one, both already subject to the attentions of the local crows. However, just off the beach and in the run of water rushing out of Loch Fleet we saw....
....plenty of live and inquisitive seals and, as the beach became exposed....
....a small flock of oystercatchers.
On the main section of the loch we watched a flock of some fifty widgeon swimming with a couple of mallard, and small groups of shelduck. A few cormorants, a handful of eider, and some gulls completed an unimpressive and quite worryingly low tally of birds, and left one with the hope that 2022 will see a recovery in local wildlife numbers.
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