Christine's walking & birds blog

On the strip of sand being steadily submerged by the incoming tide, five or six dunlin foraged and quarrelled, half a dozen noisy oystercatchers postured and socialised, and a couple of ringed plovers looked as though they were standing doing nothing but were possibly watching over unseen chicks. A common sandpiper flew along the waterline calling and disappeared among the rocks, and two great skuas flew over and headed out to sea.