The shingle bank at Littleferry which is usually crowded with waders was deserted this morning but another, nearer the mouth of the loch, had....
....a small group of cormorants and, carefully segregated, a much larger group of....
....oystercatchers with a few redshanks mixed in. The most notable absentees were the rafts of eider which, according to....
....the young man from NatureScot who was collecting the litter blown in from the beach by the recent storms, have taken a battering with large numbers of casualties.
The dunes at the back of the main beach which runs north to Golspie have been severely undermined by the sea with most of the sand taken out to sea, leaving the shingle. In amongst the wreckage along the top of the beach we found....
....this young dolphin, about a metre long, to add to the casualties of storms Babet and Debi.
The shingle bank at Littleferry which is usually crowded with waders was deserted this morning but another, nearer the mouth of the loch, had.... 
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