Today's light southerly airstream brought us damp mists and occasional drizzle so we walked through Balblair Woods on the southern shore of Loch Fleet this morning, a walk along....
....easy paths through a variety of woodland, which had little to show of interest other than....
....the occasional nondescript fungus.
It really is a very flat time of year for wildlife so we welcomed the lack of other visitors to the woods to spend a few minutes....
....in the bird hide the overlooks the loch.
There were a good number of ducks and waders taking advantage of the mudflats being steadily exposed by the falling tide, all very peaceful until....
....a low-flying raptor disturbed them. For us it was only a fleeting glance but from its size it might have been a sparrowhawk.
The dismally poor light conditions made photographing the assembled birds very difficult but we identified widgeon, shelduck and mallard among the ducks, and oystercatchers, curlews and a small wader which might have been either sanderling or dunlin. At this time of year we had hoped to see bar-tailed godwit but, unless the birds with their heads firmly buried under their wings were godwits, we saw none.
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