The beach along the coast between Golspie and Dunrobin Castle isn't particularly special but it does seem to attract interesting birds like....
....this little dunlin. We're more used to seeing this species in flocks at Littleferry but we have, once before and in the same place, found a lone individual.
Also along the beach in the last couple of days we've seen a few black-headed gulls but they're not here in the numbers we're used to. The big gull in the background is a black-backed gull.
We were in Balblair woods this morning and took a short diversion to visit the osprey nest, to find one of the pair in residence but no sign of any chicks.
Our walk took us down to the shores of Loch Fleet where we stood for some minutes looking out across mudflats which one would expect to be teeming with waders probing for worms and molluscs. There was hardly a bird in sight, just a few crows and gulls.
Happily we were cheered by the thrift or sea pink growing in profusion along the sandy edges of the loch.
The beach along the coast between Golspie and Dunrobin Castle isn't particularly special but it does seem to attract interesting birds like....
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