A Grey Day Walk

The woods are wonderfully green at this time of year with the sorrel and bluebells growing in profusion, though someone forgot to tell....

....this one which colour it was supposed to be.

Each time we walk into the countryside we find the latest flowers to arrive on the scene, like this lady's smock growing peacefully close to the traffic along the busy A9.

There are certain parts of the woodland where we're much more likely to see the resident roe deer, and this is one. We've seen her a number of times before with the previous season's young, and now she looks heavily pregnant with this year's.

Her area is one which is much-visited by dogs and her strategy seems to be to stay very still in the hope of not being seen. Seconds after this picture was taken she decided we'd seen her so she turned and fled.

We came back along the coast path with grey clouds scudding under a chill north-northeasterly, passing two shelduck feeding in the Dairy Park barley field where the crop is just beginning to sprout. We've seen this pair along this coast a couple of times recently and wonder if they're nesting nearby.