This morning we walked the same stretch of beach as we did a fortnight ago when we saw scene that I described at the time as 'carnage', with both dead and sick sea birds scattered along the tideline - see earlier post here. Happily, today there were many fewer with only six corpses to be seen. However, the main victims....
....were, once again, the guillemots followed by gannets. It does seem as if certain species have suffered far worse than others - locally, the guillemots. Although there are reports of dead gulls we've only seen one, and there were plenty of them in their usual spots along the shore.
On the much more cheerful side, we saw a number of sandwich terns on rocks exposed by the falling tide, many of them in company with young black-headed gulls.
As we walked further along the coast beyond Dunrobin Castle we spotted about ten seals hauled out on the rocks, varying in size from quite small ones through to....
....this exceptionally large one. One wonders how he got himself onto that rock: perhaps he just lay on it and waited for the tide to go out.
This morning we walked the same stretch of beach as we did a fortnight ago when we saw scene that I described at the time as 'carnage', with both dead and sick sea birds scattered along the tideline - see earlier post here. Happily, today there were many fewer with only six corpses to be seen. However, the main victims....
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