A protracted storm over the weekend brought gusts in excess of 65 m.p.h and driving rain, stripping leaves from trees, flattening crops and wrecking the garden. Today the wind has only very gradually abated, it has been cold and blustery, feeling months away from our warm, sunny plant hunt at Philorth last week. After being largely confined to the house yesterday we were glad battle with the winds and squalls by the shore this morning.
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| Fraserburgh Bay: filled with white horses in the aftermath of the storm |
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| Waders were feeding busily on the sand round the outlet of the Kessock Burn. Apart from the flock of starlings on the right of the picture, all the birds - oystercatchers, redshanks, greenshanks, blackheaded gulls, herring gulls were foraging into the wind. The starlings squabbled and rose in restless bursts of flight, shape-shifting as they flew. |
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