Christine's walking & birds blog

On another bright, cold, sunny day, Enard Bay seemed full of black and white dots. Many were the familiar great northern divers and black guillemots; but these are four razorbills that came into Achnahaird Bay - and there were more further out. Two guillemots were also seen.

I walked into the dunes to look at some pools that have collected there. This was easier than in the summer, when the spiky marram grass can be unpleasant; but you still have to watch out for all the rabbit burrows. The pools held only a pied wagtail and a skylark.


Further up the beach towards the sheep paddocks, a faint, plaintive call alerted me to the presence of nine golden plover.


Driving back I stopped to watch a red-throated diver flying very high above one of the lochs before it finally flew out towards the sea.