Eiders return

This morning Rufus and Grey Granite were pleased to see and hear two large rafts of eiders, one just off the Piper's Gwyte, the other close to Craig Ogston.There are herons over the Wastart and in the Philorth flood waters, oyster catchers and peewits on the edge of the floods. Pheasants are constantly wandering across the Line and there are several charms of goldfinches feasting on the thistles along the Line embankments. A pair of buzzards has been wheeling and crying over the Cairnbulg Castle woods. The occasional swallow still swoops over the Broch beach but the numbers are vastly down. Each morning and evening the geese fly over head, late afternoon brings shape shifting starlings.