When Scotland puts its mind to it, it can produce the most startling blue skies and, to go with them and despite it being mid-winter, a temperature of over 10C. Taking our most-trodden walk along the coast path below Dunrobin Castle one could almost imagine it to be spring, a thought encouraged by....
....a large skien of what I think were greylag geese heading determinedly north - though I think they will probably be back in their roosts to the south of us by this evening.
This walk hardly has the excitement of a safari in the Tanzanian bush but one can create a little by making a determined effort to get as close as possible to something wild, like....
....this little duck which was about thirty metres offshore near some common gulls. Creeping up on it involved some patient waiting for it to dive and then some swift movement, although....
....there were moments when I thought I had been spotted.
In the end, this was about as good a picture as I could get without disturbing the goldeneye, which has been hanging around, rather lonelily, for some weeks.
When Scotland puts its mind to it, it can produce the most startling blue skies and, to go with them and despite it being mid-winter, a temperature of over 10C. Taking our most-trodden walk along the coast path below Dunrobin Castle one could almost imagine it to be spring, a thought encouraged by....
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