We walked the coast path this morning, from the village northwards passing....
....below Dunrobin Castle. With a high tide, the shore was almost deserted of waders except for....
....a couple of curlews and as many redshanks, all of which were working over the seaweed deposited on the beach by recent high tides.
On the castle side of the path there's a large thicket of sea buckthorn. Its berries have hardly been touched this winter, which indicates that we haven't had many Scandinavian incomers, such a redwings, yet, as they strip these bushes quickly. So the local birds were taking advantage of the feast, including....
....this female blackcap which allowed us to move up to within two metres before flying away. We also spotted....
....this, rather more reticent bird which I think may have been a bullfinch.
We walked until we reached this gate which leads out onto open fields, where we turned and set off on a sunny but rather chilly return to the car.
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