This was Loch Fleet this morning, sunny but with a strong northwesterly blowing and the tide falling fast, not that either of these bothered....
....the small flock of shelduck feeding on the muddy bottom of the loch.
We walked through Ferry Woods, past Loch Unes where, hopefully, the summer will bring us some damsel- and dragonflies, and then....
....out onto the links where NatureScot has, for reasons I can't fathom, decided to grub up some of the many thickets of gorse on the reserve, and on....
....to a beach deserted of life except for a couple of waders, perhaps redshanks, some gulls, and....
....a dead oystercatcher.
The sense of desertedness extended to the human race. On a one-and-a-half hour walk we saw no other humans, though from the prints along the tideline someone had already been there, in the company of two dogs.
Retracing our steps to the car we spotted a red kite and a common lizard, the fact that the latter was active testament to the growing warmth of the earth which, hopefully, will speed spring upon its way.
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