Yesterday's view from the bench along the path to Dunrobin Castle was of a busy sky over a dead-calm sea. I sat there for at least half-an-hour and not a soul passed me, sat enjoying the warmth of the sun and the light breeze and the alone-ness, and watching....
....the structure formed of boulders that sticks out at right angles to the beach; watch it because it's a favoured congregating place for the birds that spend their time along this section of coast.
There are cormorants, many of them with white bibs which indicate they are juveniles, a grey heron (at left) and two large gulls which I think are the black-backed pair which frequented these rocks last winter.
Then there is a rather difficult-to-see flock of rock doves, part of a much bigger flock which, having wintered here last year, then went away for the summer and are only recently returned; and several other birds - oystercatchers and curlews in particular - which are not in these pictures.
I can quite understand why the birds so favour this spot at the end of the rock peninsula - it's well away from any dogs that pass along the coast path - but I do not understand why this strange structure has formed at this particular point along the coast.
Yesterday's view from the bench along the path to Dunrobin Castle was of a busy sky over a dead-calm sea. I sat there for at least half-an-hour and not a soul passed me, sat enjoying the warmth of the sun and the light breeze and the alone-ness, and watching....
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