High Tide on the Rocks

With high tide approaching sea birds congregeate on the rocks opposite Lower Largo Pier. Here there are cormorants including a juvenile with a white breast also herring gulls and a greatblack-backed gull.

An Abundance of Wild Flowers

A sea of white daisies (scentless mayweed, I think) in the field beside the Serpentine Walk. Perhaps because of the weather conditions wild flowers seem particularly prolific this year.

A large patch of meadow crane's-bill alongside the old railway track.

Meadowsweet by the track.

A bank of wild thyme above the beach in Lower Largo.

A field of creeping thistles by the ruined salt-pan houses in Largo. They were attracting tortoiseshell butterflies and hoverflies.

Field scabious along the path on the railway track.

A patch of the Scottish bluebell or harebell on the Massney Braes at Lundin Links. A more delicate flower than the wild hyacinth also known as bluebell that blooms in the spring

In a completely different setting wild flowers which have been seeded on to a roundabout in Leven. It looks stunning and I much prefer this to the more formal displays.

Shore Crab

A green shore crab (Carcinus maenas) stranded on the beach at Lower Largo, its carapace encrusted with barnacles.

After the Rain

After the torrential rain yesterday a beautiful afternoon. Black-headed gulls were enjoying the small lake that had formed in the flooded field which runs along the road between Upper Largo and Lundin Links. Largo Law is in the background.

A Fog Bank Over Leven

A lovely warm afternoon, but there was a bank of fog sitting over Leven at the Western end of Largo Bay

Ringlet Butterfly

A ringlet butterfly on a butterbur leaf at the beginning of the Serpentine Walk in Lower Largo.

Whispering Grass

Perhaps because of all the rain, the grasses on the coastal fringe around Largo Bay seem to have been particularly spectacular this year. Not quite as high as an elephant's eye but pretty tall nonetheless. On a breezy day last Sunday it was a delight  to see them swaying in the wind.

Wild flowers amongst the grasses thistles, harebells and hawkweed.   

Looking across the grass to the western end of Largo Bay.

And East towards Ruddon's Point.