We were at Littleferry this morning a few minutes before high tide, with the incoming current strong where it's funnelled in through the constricted mouth of Loch Fleet.
It was good to see oystercatchers back after the recent blowy weather. Look carefully at the centre of the picture where there's a lone turnstone with them; and, a little further along the beach, we spotted two sanderlings.
Making our way back across the links, with snow on the hills beyond Brora, we found....
....a dead juvenile guillemot alongside a dog's ball - there's a story somewhere there!
On our way home we stopped briefly on the banks of Loch Fleet, happily in the few moments the sun chose to come out. There was little to see in the way of wildlife on the still waters of the loch but we did find....
....a small mixed flock of shelduck, some of the males coming in to their mating finery, and mallard.
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