Sandhaven shoreline

The shore between Sandhaven and Phingask is usually well populated with seals, seabirds, waders and ducks probably attracted by the rich feeding ground created by the water treatment works outflow. This morning at high tide there were eiders, mallards, oystercatchers and curlews and a large flotilla of blackheaded gulls. In previous years there has been a pair of shellducks, absent today. There were, as usual, cormorants on the sea wall and flocks of restless starlings feeding on the seaweed thrown up  on to the shore. large, noisy flocks of geese grazed in the fields over the road.