This morning we followed our favourite way to approach the beach at Littleferry by parking by Ferry Woods and walking through them to the shore. After two days of sunless, damp mists and temperatures struggling to reach 16C the bushes were festooned with spiders webs picked out by condensation.
The woodland under-storey is mainly heather and today, for the first time, we found a white-flowered ling.
Out on the open beach the mist gave us about half a mile's visibility, enough to see across the entrance to Loch Fleet where the female eider and this year's young are congregating to dive to feed on the mussel beds. Other birds appearing and disappearing out of the mist included some very vociferous sandwich terns and....
....passing flocks of oystercatchers which seemed quite incapable of flying anywhere without making a fuss of it.
We walked almost a mile of beach before we found the first corpses, of a guillemot and a gannet, which is a continuing improvement on the number we've been seeing over the last few weeks.
We wandered back across misty links where just a few butterflies, particularly common blues, were on the wing, but most....
....were finding it too cool to do any more than spread their wings and hope, vainly, for some sun.
This morning we followed our favourite way to approach the beach at Littleferry by parking by Ferry Woods and walking through them to the shore. After two days of sunless, damp mists and temperatures struggling to reach 16C the bushes were festooned with spiders webs picked out by condensation.
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