Menorgimaelstrome; something different

Last Monday, Mac1 drove me back to the Hutch to check for mail, then up to the Inverclyde Hospital fracture clinic for the one week review of the wrist injury (all good, next appt 8th October). After this, we made a day of it by heading to the Port Glasgow shopping park for a grocery gathering, clothes browse and to collect a picnic lunch. We drove down beside the shoreline to eat and watched as a hoard of seabirds capered in the water in front of us.

We got curious. Numerous Herring Gulls, as well as Black-headed and Caspian Gulls (a rare visitor here), plus a handsome heron, cormorant and a pair of female mergansers were frolicking - yes, I say frolicking!

Out of the car and over to the barrier we went, where peering into the gently lapping water of the Clyde we saw a large shoal of whitebait being press-ganged into the shingle by a voracious bunch of mackeral. Mac1 whipped out her trusty 'me-tab' thingy and took a couple of piccies as well as some vid footage. Look closely - the dark swirling below the surface is not seaweed, but fish; you'll also see silver flashes as the whitebait attempt to flee...right onto the shingle and into birds beaks!!!