It's some weeks since we walked Golspie's south beach but this morning the tide was low so we had miles of open sand to enjoy - along with the usual residents such as this flock of oystercatchers which waited until we were quite close before....
....taking to the air. Also along the beach was a small flock of half-a-dozen of my favourite waders, the little....
....sanderlings which, despite the surf built by a stiff southeaster, were happily running into the swash to pick up some delicacy or other which they obviously much enjoy.
Not all the birds along the beach were in such happy state. This is, I think, once again, a guillemot, the species we most often find dead and washed up on this coast - not that anything goes to waste as....
....there are always both pied and black carrion crows around to clean up.
Also stranded up was this jellyfish, about 3.5" across. We searched the beach for more without success.
We've come across them before: they're crystal jellyfish, a foreign invader - see a February 2020 blog post which describes them
here.
We were out along the beach for almost two hours and met not a single other human.
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