U3A Nature Group visit to Neist Point 13th August 2012

The day was wet, the day was windy, but as Skye goes no that bad.

Neist Point


It's a bird, flower, and cliff thing.


Stone mounds, built by tourists as their gesture to the vast unknown of nature, minutes before their total obliteration in David's holy war against stone mounds. In the meantime an uncomfortable lunch was consumed and all but three of the party departed the scene, after which the rain ceased, the wind lightened, and the gloom lifted.


Red things


Red and green things (maybe thrift).


Lovely cooling joints in igneous rocks.


Steve has identified this as bog pimpernel (Anagallis tenella) and says it is relatively rare on Skye.


More of nature's crazy paving.


Gannet (Morus bassanus) pursued by great skua (Stercorarius skua).


Close encounter of the 92nd kind.


Ooo yoo lookin a'!


A common plover (Charadrius hiaticulus).


Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis).


Nice colour scheme














Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)


Kittiwake


Fulmar (Fulmaris glacialis)


Young kittiwake hassled over untidy bedroom.






Kinky black boots


To the lighthouse


Immature kittiwake


Devilsbit scabious (Succisa pratensis)