Winter visitors at home on the beach!

Every winter the beach here is visited by Snow Buntings - sometimes a flock is made up of 60+ individuals. The photo shows part of a flock of about 30 seen on a beautiful bright winter's day close to the golf course.

As the birds move across the beach in search of food they can appear like pieces of tissue paper blowing around in the wind!

Snow Bunting breed around the arctic from Scandinavia to Alaska, Canada and Greenland and migrate south in winter. There are a few resident breeding pairs in Scotland.