It's a stunning spot, with seven miles of sand popular with purple sandpipers.

They are also home to a variety of wildlife including a colony of rare purple sandpipers.

Purple sandpipers arc the most self-effacing of birds.

Waders such as purple sandpipers, turnstones and a few grey phalarope share the tundra habitat.

As we tread, we spot oystercatchers, redshanks, terns and purple sandpipers.

Turnstones and purple sandpipers will join the redshanks and ringed plovers which are probably resident.

But the rocky shore specialists arc better catered for and turnstones and purple sandpipers arc common winter residents.

They are strictly coastal, preferring stony beaches to sand, and are often found with other waders such as Purple Sandpipers.

Finally the Luottolako Plateau is also considered to be interesting, with the most important concentration of Purple Sandpipers anywhere in Sweden.

Whilst oystercatchers, gulls and eiders take adult Nucella, many other birds will eat juveniles; rock pipits, Anthus spinoletta, turnstones, Arenaria interpres, and purple sandpipers, Calidris maritima, in particular.

The rocks of Filey Brigg as well as the intertidal zone attract numerous species of birds, such as oystercatchers, redshanks and purple sandpipers, which visit the shoreline in nationally significant numbers during the winter.

Down on the dark grey beach there was a collection of glaucous gulls and a few purple sandpipers, and then to my delight a snow white ivory gull flew in and settled on the shingle, giving me the chance to stalk and photograph one of the world's rarer gulls.