We walked along Golspie beach this morning on our way to a four-hour stint in the charity shop to find the mudflats exposed by the falling tide devoid of seabirds except for....
....a lone oystercatcher. In fact there were more....
....terrestrial birds than seabirds, including sparrows, rooks, a goldfinch and, high above us.... three swifts! Only yesterday I was writing about their demise and today they turn up to confound me - but, welcome back!
The swifts may have been too quick for a photograph so here's one of a species which, locally at least, is not endangered - the house sparrows in our garden. The parents have just fledged yet another brood so we must have upwards of fifty squabbling over the feeders at any one time. No doubt the sparrowhawk, who was in the garden a couple of days ago, will thin them out.
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