Given the chance, and some fine weather, we'll drive the ten minutes to Littleferry to walk along its beach, particularly when, on a day like today, there's a spring tide with the sea low and miles and miles of sandy beach exposed - and absolutely no-one to share it with except for....
....a couple of oystercatchers.
We do appreciate our good fortune. I can't believe that there are many other beaches in Britain of the size of the one at Littleferry which are as deserted on a fine Monday Bank Holiday.
Another reason for going to Littleferry is that we are hearing that the first ospreys are back from their winter quarters in western Africa. There are supposed to be no less than four active nests around Loch Fleet - and we will, in the next few days, return to Littleferry to check the one which we watch each year - but there was no sign of any ospreys yet.
Instead, we spent a few minutes watching the pink-footed geese which seemed to be in a state of considerable confusion as to which way they were supposed to be flying. At the time this picture was taken they were heading very determinedly south.
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