Phingask Shore

Not a great shot but, at 3c and in the midst of a hail shower and strong winds, it was almost impossible for frozen fingers to press the shutter. There are hundreds of oyster catchers on the rock, all facing in to the wind.

What can only be euphemistically described as a bracing walk along the shore at Phingask this morning was redeemed by the good numbers of birds and wildfowl along the shore. Species included starlings and crows picking over the seaweed, greenshanks, eiders bobbing like corks on the high swell and roosting like round dapper footballs on the rocks, three shellducks, several mallards and a small neat golden eye sitting on  a rock as well as assorted keening gulls and curlews.The pond at Pittendrum supported three whooper swan sand a dense raft of several dozen mallards. Daisies and dandelions struggle to flower.