Fishermen

The easterly wind persists, stronger today than yesterday, bringing in an even heavier sea along the Golspie shoreline. It's rotten weather for....

....the local creel fishermen who can't get out to lift their pots but are losing them instead. Other fishermen are having an even more torrid time, there being....

....at least four dead cormorants along the shore near their low-tide roost, the rest being either along the high-tide mark - we did wonder whether these are the same two we saw on Thursday - or....

....taking shelter in the barley field at the back of the beach.

The storm is being cruel to the divers as well, with the bodies of several razorbills, all small, tangled in the kelp. The only birds that seem to be rather enjoying the conditions are....

....the gulls, which are playing their version of 'dare' as they pick up food from the breaking waves.