We found rather more people than usual at Littleferry when we arrived there this morning, the locals out for a walk in fine if rather cloudy weather supplemented by half-a-dozen twitchers attracted by the presence, in amongst....
....the masses of common eider, of a single king eider. Not having the fancy telephoto lenses and high-power binoculars which they had, I resorted to group photographs of the eight hundred or so eider swimming back and forth, in the hope that, in amongst the pictures, I might find....
....this very spectacular bird - image courtesy Ron Knight of Seaford, E. Sussex, on Wikimedia Commons.
I ended up with about forty of these groups through which I have carefully worked, without success.
King eider are not uncommon further north, in places like Norway, but are unusual here, hence the twitcher interest.
While we walked skeins of geese kept passing over - I think these are pink-footed geese - but....
....these sad remains reminded us that there is now a warning out from NatureScot that avian flu has been identified at Loch Fleet and that we should report if we find many dead birds.
To add to the rafts of eider we saw widgeon and this lone goldeneye.
We found rather more people than usual at Littleferry when we arrived there this morning, the locals out for a walk in fine if rather cloudy weather supplemented by half-a-dozen twitchers attracted by the presence, in amongst....
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