The Despoilment of the Sea Buckthorn

The sea buckthorn bushes along the front near Dunrobin Castle were loaded with a mass of orange berries some three weeks ago but they were....

....stripped bare in just a few days.

This picture gives an idea of the number of berries which should have been available to keep the birds through the winter and, if you look carefully at top right, the possible reason for their sudden disappearance, for the...

....buckthorn was alive with blackbirds, redwings and fieldfares, all migrants from Scandinavia.