The tide was rising fast at Littleferry this morning, the strong inward current at the entrance to Loch Fleet carrying several black-and-white divers into the pool that's just inside the loch's mouth. We rather assumed that these were all....
....guillemots and were pleased to see them as this species continues to be the one whose sad corpses are most common along this coast's strand line but, on closer inspection, we realised....
....that the majority were razorbills. The bird at left in this picture, with the sharp bill, is a guillemot, the other two, rather darker and with much blunter bills, are razorbills.
It was good to see so many razorbills. This is the first time we've seen them in any numbers.
Along the sands just to the north of the entrance to Loch Fleet we came across this large jellyfish. It was about 18" across at its widest and looked just like....
....an animal's entrails. I think it's a lion's mane jellyfish, a species we saw rather too much of in the waters off Ardnamurchan but which has been much less common on this side of the country.
We've seen very few jellyfish this year, few enough to count on the fingers of one hand.
The tide was rising fast at Littleferry this morning, the strong inward current at the entrance to Loch Fleet carrying several black-and-white divers into the pool that's just inside the loch's mouth. We rather assumed that these were all....
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