Ecobird's photos with the keyword: Cliffs

Captured at a picnic area at Latheronwheel, Caithness, Highlands, Scotland. Latheronwheel is a sleepy little harbour and a nice place to sit and enjoy the view and maybe have something to eat. That is of course unless it is your 'Last Meal' With tongue in cheek I have added a song by 'Asleep at the Wheel' called 'Last Meal' www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzuRCeq8uBk

Captured at Latheronwheel, Caithness, Scotland, a sleepy little harbour dating from around 1840, where the only noise on our visit came from a nesting bird above us on the cliffs. It must have thought I was too close to it's nest as I walked along the harbour to picture the two small boats seen in the PiP on the right hand side. The bird was agitated and shouting at me, as can be seen in the first PiP on the left, and eventually flew away from the nest, probably to distract me as it looks as if there were young in the nest. To be honest if it hadn't been making all that fuss I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all!!. So, easy now, little birds , you are safe. I have added a song by Neil Gallaghers's High Flying Birds called 'Easy Now' www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoZ3leKz9x4

Taken at Staxigoe Harbour, near Wick, Caithness, Scotland on a beautiful day when the blue of the sky almost merged with the colour of the sea. Staxigoe is from the Norse 'gja or geo' meaning inlet and 'stakkr' meaning stack or rock, thus inlet of the stack. It is an attractive and well cared for little harbour as can be seen by the weather vane and bench painted in jaunty blue and white. Staxigoe dates back to at least 1878 when in featured in the first edition Ordnance Survey map. It was once the largest herring salting stations in Europe but went into decline with the construction of a larger port in Wick just a coupld of miles East of here. Nowadays a set of steps lead down to this pretty harbour where there are just a couple of small boats, seen beyond the bench here. The massive 'stack' or rock of which the top is visible on the left of the picture has an old winch nearby and picnic tables painted in the same blue as in the shot. The gentle slope out to the Noth Sea makes it a popular place for swimmers. As a nod to the herring salting history of the place I have added a link from Vision Thing which is a song about a fishing community near Wick and is called 'Silver Darlings' (Herrings were of course known as silver darlings) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHXs1Wea_YQ Please view large as this in in 16.9. Many thanks