The Oystercatcher's Nest

On Sunday we watched this oystercatcher make herself comfortable on her nest amongst the seaweed and other flotsam of a previous high tide and commented that the nest was, "....in the most exposed position, only a few yards off the coast path and the dogs that come along it, and watched by several crows and seagulls."

It wasn't the dogs or the gulls or the crows that did for the nest but the northeasterly wind which, on a miserably cold, blustery day yesterday, pushed the high tide up so it....

....deposited weed all over the nest.

Such a shame, particularly as the nest was just below one of the benches along the coast path, so we could have sat and watched the family hatch and grow up.