Just up the coast from Golspie there's a boulder spit which sticks out into the sea and is covered at high tide. This morning, with the tide falling, in a stiff easterly breeze which brought occasional showers, the....
....flock of cormorants which seems to 'own' it were joined by....
....the usual gulls and oystercatchers and a few crows, curlews and redshanks, and by....
....a large flock of.... pigeons.
We're getting used to various land-based species exploiting the sea shore: crows are common, mostly jackdaws and carrion cows, as are pied wagtails when they're around, but.... pigeons?
They're rock doves, which were the ancestors of the urban pigeons. Today the wild version is largely confined to the north and west coasts of Scotland. Previously we've only seen one pair, at Littleferry, but today there must have been a good fifty.
Just up the coast from Golspie there's a boulder spit which sticks out into the sea and is covered at high tide. This morning, with the tide falling, in a stiff easterly breeze which brought occasional showers, the....
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