Christine's walking & birds blog

Hanging out washing this morning, I heard distant calls and looked up to see pink-footed geese overhead, flying to the south-east in a ragged V. Late afternoon, there were at least three terns fishing in Loch Broom, seen from the golf-course spit. I'm not sure if this is a juvenile common tern or a juvenile Arctic tern. More research needed, although I incline to common.

Some fins breaking the surface towards the far shore suggest porpoises - again, I'm not certain.But I do know the Sabine's gull by now, and it was there again as the rising tide crept up the river spit and made the oystercatchers and gulls shuffle up towards the beach - or take to the water.