Mostly Oystercatchers

7.4C starting very wet, drying up through the morning but remaining mostly dull. Very light breeze.

Maeve the Deerhound and I walked down the road to the shore after lunch. The field route would have been very muddy after the early rain.

The tide was very high again. Just two or three yards of beach. The waves were roaring in across the rocks and the spray was floating inland again with no wind to blow it away.

We walked along towards Easthaven. I got this shot of the birds by shooting across the mouth of Craigmill Burn (which shows as Monikie Burn on the map here). Normally birds on the beach fly off too soon but having the burn in between us must have made them feel safer.

We walked back the way we came and at a couple of places had to wait for the surf to run back down the beach to get room to make our way along. Thats several days that the tides have run into the dunes. In places there are new vertical walls of sand where the small dunes have given way. The earlier tidal surges have also pulled old second world war concrete and brick steps down onto the beach and the sea is getting in behind.