2010 New Year Walk
A Happy New Year to all Tain & District Field Club members and friends:
New Year walk:
Eight brave souls ventured out on 2nd January and had a good but very cold walk.
Highlights were :
The stranded white-beaked dolphin,
The dolphin has now been removed by Scottish Strandings. Post-mortem did not show any physical cause for the stranding so chemical and biological samples have been sent for analysis. Links regarding strandings (
1,
2,
3,
4,
5).

Also, seen at a distance, a small sanderling flock on the beach;
and slightly nearer, a large flock of 150+ twite 
in the Dornoch dunes.
Homeward across ice and snow.