Our favourite winter highlights at Sandscale


- You might feel like you’re alone on the beach in winter but the calls of the thousands of roosting wading birds remind you that the beach is busy with wildlife. Birds like dunlin, sanderling, oystercatcher, grey plover and knott sit in their hundreds and thousands along the strandline feeding on tasty morsels of food they can find in the wet sand. It’s amazing to stand and watch them fly up in the air as the tide washes in.

- Even in winter the sunsets over Sandscale’s beach can be breath-taking as the watery, wintery sky is warmed up by the rays of the sun. Time it right before dusk and stroll along the beach. Often a sunset will come out of the cloudiest of days so if you’re a keen photographer be prepared!