A fine spring day, and we walked along Newark Bay
stood on the little wooden bridge to watch the ripples & tangles
Then came across one of the stoat traps being deployed by the Orkney Native Wildlife Project https://www.orkneynativewildlife.org.uk
There are quite a few of them along this stretch of coast, presumably to try to stop the little varmints from crossing to Copinsay – which would be disastrous for the ground-nesting birds there.
This one is by a rough little wall…. with a stone……with a neat little hole in it. There’ll be a story there, somewhere
On the shore, a skull-stone
And a stone covered in vivid yellow lichen
It was a day of birds – neighbouring flocks of Barnacle Geese and Pink-footed Geese in the fields. Mixed wader flocks on the shore with Dunlin, Sanderling, Turnstone, Oystercatchers, Red-shank and the odd Curlew. Plus, independently, Rock Pipits.
A Cormorant, Long-tailed Ducks and Eiders on the sea. And, as you’d expect, a variety of Gulls, everywhere!
To Sheila Fleet’s for lunch – delicious as ever
We got home and were talking with our neighbour when we noticed a weird rainbow
What a day – and what a place to live!