A Circular Walk from Lundin Links

The weather was better yesterday, after a terrible 24 hours of driving rain. We set off for a walk in the afternoon. From the centre of Lundin Links we headed down to the pier.

Looking down onto the bay, could see that on this exposed rock apart from the gulls there was a large flock of very tiny birds. I'm not very good at identifying small waders, but I suspect these were dunlin.

Carried on to Lower Largo Harbour. Gulls often stand on the tops of the mooring posts. This one is a black-headed gull. In winter they lose the black head. all that remains is a dark spot near the eye.

The beach was out, because of the high tide, so walked along Main Street in Lower Largo to the Temple carpark. At the back of the carpark there are some steps up to the old disused railway track, now part of the Fife Coastal path. There is a track uphill to the left which leads to the Serpentine Walk. This is a snake like path that leads to Upper Largo. This walkway and the surrounding trees are now in the care of the Woodland Trust.

Just at the beginning of the path there were some patches of snowdrops, the first that I have seen in bloom.

There is a good view of Largo Law from the path with the village of Upper Largo nestling at it's foot.

The long narrow Sepentine Walk with trees on either side.

We have a Breathing Places Nature of Britain calender produced by the BBC and the Open University, which suggests things to look out for each month. One of the things for January was Ear Fungus on elder trees. There are some dead elder trees on the Serpentine Walk and we found the ear fungus on a broken off branch.

At the end of the walk we crossed the Main Road and turned back towards Lundin Links.

Sheep may safely graze. Sheep in the field, in the shadow of the ruins of Largo House, seeminly unperturbed by the traffic rushing by on the main road.

At the War Memorial we turned right towards the entrance to Keils Den. This is a lovely wooded area which surrounds both sides of the Keil Burn. Again it is in the care of the Wodland Trust.

A patch of aconite in bloom at the side of the road.

Another fungus. Not sure of this ones identity though. Ash seed was another thing we were looking out for, and we saw this on the far bank.

From the entrance to the Den we walked above the steep sides of the Den till a path drops down to a bridge. We crossed the bridge walked back along the other side of the burn, to a public footpath along the edge of a field which leads back into Lundin Links