Easy Day

 Friday May 9

This morning's moth trap held four moths. The photos are from my IPhone.

Mating White Ermine

 

A Lychnis

 


and a Brown House Moth (now deceased).

We promised ourselves an easier day, indeed it was.  In the morning, Pam took the car to a local garage, recommended by Mike (owner here). The tyre pressure warning light has been on ever since we left home. Our own garage turned it off and said it was 'over sensitive'. A b. nuisance is more apt. The tyre pressures remain correct, a thousand miles or more after it came on. It doesn't do much one's peace of mind. £3 later, we can read the milometer again and the light is off.

Such a warm, sunny day, most unlike the Scotland we know and love - as it has been all week. Today was the warmest and most cloudless. We had a real oldie outing. Shopping at Tesco, before sitting in the small western car park at Burghead, looking at the sea. In between scoping, I read the newspaper and did puzzles, whilst Pam was happy to sit and watch. A large green ship travelled west and then reversed the entire way back, seeming to drop something from the bows of the boat. Rubbish? A small fishing boat chugged about seeing to the forest of buoys marking lobster/crab pots.

Birds were few. Three Gannets, four Guillemots, an Eider, and a horde of gulls, mostly Herring, loafing on the exposed rocky shoreline.

 The occasional Shag sat amongst them. 



The edge pf the parking area was delineated by patches of Thrift

 


 Nairn harbour, just along the coast has an impressive statue of a fisherwoman. I love it.


 We haven't decided what to do tomorrow yet.

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