After getting to know the dogs and the immediate area I ventured a bit further afield and went to the puffin stacks on the border between Caithness and Sutherland,since my last visit there a couple of years ago numbers appear to have increased quite well.
PUFFIN STACK
PUFFIN
As well as the puffins there were razorbills,guillemots,black guillemots,shags fulmars,kittiwakes,bonxies,and the usual gulls to be seen here.
RAZORBILLS
Also of interest on the way to the cliff edge were heath spotted orchid,bog asphodel and a new butterfly for me a large heath.
HEATH SPOTTED ORCHID
BOG ASPHODEL
On the way back to Kirtomy I called at Armadale bay,where this buzzard was seen circling overhead.
Also there on the beach were four ravens,several ringed plovers and dunlinand a couple of common sandpipers
BUZZARD
RINGED PLOVER doing broken wing impression.
DUNLIN on the rocks
MEADOW PIPITS were very common all over the area
NORTHERN MARSH ORCHID.
RAZORBILLS
MEADOW PIPITS were very common all over the area
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