Being Sunday we were pleased to find spaces in the tiny carpark at Aberlady Nature Reserve as we set off to walk to Gullane Point.  Bees and flies were very busy on the crab apple blossom beside the car park with the view beyond of the footbridge leading across the river at low tide towards the reserve.   Usually there are many different sea birds and waders calling as they search the mud but today they were quiet although there were many different song birds singing especially in the copse and beside Marl Loch.  It is still early for most of the moths and butterflies there but we did see several Wall butterflies and dozens of Orange tips. In places there were carpets of cowslips and ladysmock and thrift on the headland and many other flowers in the marshes and dunes.  The collage shows thrift and some of the yellow flowers  -  cowslip, birdsfoot trefoil, marsh marigold, mouse ear hawkweed and coltsfoot