Christine's walking & birds blog

There was a long line of scaup out on the waves, but a few left the water and made their way with a typical duck swagger up a channel where wigeon were preening.


Hundreds of wigeon and knot had been flying around restlessly as the tide turned, eventually settling down on the emerging mudflats of the Cromarty Firth at Udale Bay with redshanks, oystercatchers, dunlin, bar-tailed and black-tailed godwits, and curlew.  Teal and little grebes were closer in, and a bunch of shelduck slept on the salt marsh. It was a lousy day weather-wise with strong winds and constant rain; but it was good to get over to the east coast and see loads and loads of birds. Not many Siberian accentors, though.