We took advantage of a relatively warm morning - the temperature at 3C - light winds, and some brief bursts of sunshine to drive to Littleferry to walk along....
....a mile or so of sand exposed by the low tide. The usual oystercatchers were there, feeding both along the wave line and amongst the seaweed-covered rocks, some rafts of eider swam offshore, a black-backed gull watched us warily, and a lone cormorant flew unusually fast and low past us along the beach.
When we walked to the end of Littleferry's jetty, the pools at the entrance to Loch Fleet were filling with the rising tide but were bare of wildlife except a seal and a single....
....goldeneye creating circular ripples on the loch's calm surface as it dived to feed.
It is winter, it is a time when the wildlife concentrates on survival, but we do wonder what has happened to some of the other bird life we used to see at this time of year, including the masses of redshanks and the small but busy flocks of sanderling.
At least, as we drove home, we spotted the first geese we've seen in some time, a dozen or so pink-footed enjoying the hospitality of a farmer's field.
We took advantage of a relatively warm morning - the temperature at 3C - light winds, and some brief bursts of sunshine to drive to Littleferry to walk along....
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