Just looking at the photos I need to edit for this page, I took a few! Out and about by 07:40, it was a chilly morning again, it is only March though.
I parked at the sports field gates and headed for the shore again, I've started switching on Merlin when I first get out of the car, see what it hears, not that it's prefect by any means but just as a wee check, see what might be around.
Early songsters
Blackbird & Song Thrush
I'm a sucker for a nice sky and it doesn't always translate well into a photograph.
Down the rust pipe?
Pastel shades
On along the shore to the ramp and over to the shore again.
Redshank on the shore
Redshank sneakin'
Between a rock and ..... another rock :)
Redshank between rocks
Now, I've had a very pleasant surprise down here before, an Otter feeding on the shore but, I did not expect to see this. Skittering across my path, bouncing over the wet grass, this wee Stoat stopped behind the car for a wee look at what I was doing!
It didn't hang about long, three shots and it was gone!
Common Gulls looking for the perfect spot
Morning panorama
I think I've mentioned Hooded Crows a few times? ;) There's a pair up here that are Hooded Crow x Carrion Crow, I saw them last year with young ones.
Carrion Crow x Hooded Crow pair
Mrs Hoodie?
I don't know why but, I think of the Hooded crow as the female?
Another wee bird there's never a shortage of around the fort and ranges is the Pipit, Rock and Meadow
Meadow Pipit on the wall
Rock Pipit on the wall
I love walking right around the fort, when the tide allows, it's rarely busy and I hope that never changes.
Sleep with one eye open
Not everyone likes our weather, apparently it is THE topic of conversation in the UK but, it's actually wonderful. I don't think I could live where the weather rarely changes, constant sunshine would be boring.
Solitude
I can spend hours around here silence, peace and views and wildlife to die for. Again, when the tide allows, I like to walk right along the shore to the radar then up onto the ranges, a completely different set of birds up there.
I spotted a clump of 'shrooms as I clambered off the beach and onto the ranges.
Wren
Wren singing
Still on the beach but looking up into the gorse and trees of the ranges.
Curlew foraging on the shore
