let s see the situation on the scottish mainland. ben philip sent this report from aberdeenshire. a summer s day at the beach. but this is becoming an all too common sight up and down the country dead birds washed up on the sand. since the start ofjuly alone, more than 1,000 dead seabirds suspected of having avian influenza have been collected and disposed of on the aberdeenshire coastline hundreds of them from here at the beach in cruden bay. we ve had reports back from the beach pretty much on a daily basis that, you know, there s either dead or dying birds washed up all the way. i mean, literally every tide, they ve brought in more. so it s been pretty much all over. and, of course, this being a very sort of visitor related beach and all the rest of it, it s been a shame for the visitors and this, that and the other, so seeing this much sort of destruction, really, the bird population. aberdeenshire council says it s seen a significant reduction in the number of dead birds being