With both the dawn sky and the weather forecast promising a fine day we drove, once again, to Littleferry, first for....
....a brisk walk along near-deserted sands, spoilt by finding the object at bottom left in this picture....
....a dead guillemot.
Sadly, within a few metres of this, we found two other corpses, both razorbills. To make matters worse, there was little in the way of living birds to see beyond a small flock of oystercatchers, some unidentifiable ducks, a single sanderling, and a carrion crow....
....so, in the hope of finding something to cheer us, we crossed the road to the western side of the Littleferry 'peninsula' where a walk through a coniferous plantation led to good views of the....
....inner pool of Loch Fleet where, along with a good number of ducks - too distant to be identified for certain - a couple of dozen gulls and some waders, we found....
....the Littleferry seals looking as fat as ever, basking on sandbanks which were being rapidly inundated by the rising tide.
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