Craig Ogston with roosting cormorants, gulls and oyster catchers. There was a necklace of eiders strung out all along the water,and geese flew in from the sea. We heard the occasional landward curlew.
Yesterday the iron grey February skies of the last few days gave way to sleet and gale force winds, apparently the tail end of the horrendous weather experienced in the US earlier in the week. Today the temperature in the sunshine rose to 10c, yesterday it barely reached 2c. The only signs of yesterday's slush and gales were a group of large boats at anchor, sheltering in Aberdour Bay and feint patches of snow lingering towards Troup Head.
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| Rufus in typical Border Terrier pose sniffing the air high on the Round Brae. |
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| The Swine Burn, Mill Burn and the Red Well were all brimming with snow melt and rain. Each hollow was bejewelled with temporary lochans |
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| The day felt as if Spring is not far away but we searched without success for the first flowers, scurvy grass or perhaps the celandines which we are told are flowing along the Thames Towpath at Kew. |
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