Harbour seal and cormorants

In Birsay on an overcast day with a stiff, cool breeze from the SE. It seemed quiet, although numbers built up- 125 oystercatchers, 30 turnstones and roughly the same number of purple sandpipers, the first two shelduck of the year, etc. The shelduck will nest in the nearby sand dunes- its weird seeing duck track heading down a rabbit burrow. The cormorants were bothering the seal. It was dozing and they kept shifting about, like annoying train passengers in the next seat. The seal is rather tatty-looking. They moult in September, according to the internet, but maybe that takes place much later in the far north.