The falling tide at the mouth of Loch Fleet this morning should have attracted plenty of waders but all we saw was a....
....single curlew, irritated by our approach, and, on the far side of the channel, a line of cormorants drying and preening themselves.
We walked northeast along the beach which borders the National Nature Reserve, again seeing very little except discarded mollusc shells and balls of weed. The days when we would find dead fish and rays, jellyfish and starfish, seem to be over. And it wasn't much better when we returned to the car along one of the many paths that criss-cross the links, where all we could find was....
....a few fungi - blackening wax caps are doing well - and the last of....
....summer's flowers, including this lonely Scottish bluebell.
The falling tide at the mouth of Loch Fleet this morning should have attracted plenty of waders but all we saw was a....
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