Scotland Visit Day 3 & 4 : Forvie & The Ythan Estuary : 10th September 2011
We has been to various bits of the Ythan estuary on previous visits to Aberdeen-shire but we wanted to go to the parts where we might have a chance of seeing waders. We were also interested in going to the the Forvie visitor centre to find out a bit more about the dune system – parts of which are threatened by the development of a golf resort being built by Donald Trump a little further south on the other side of the mouth of the Ythan at Foveran- so we headed off to the Forvie NNR visitor centre near Collieston and had a look around there but it was so windy that we thought that that there would be little chance of any birds taking to the air from the dunes. On the other hand, we had seen a lot of waders on the estuary of the River Ythan as we drove from New Deer to Collieston ( the A975) so we thought that there would be better birding opportunities there. After having a look around the interesting visitor centre we decided to go back down the main road to the river.