The Picnic Bench

There's a pleasant little picnic area where the road to Littleferry passes close to Loch Fleet, and three picnic tables have been provided for visitors to the Loch Fleet National Nature Reserve. This one is closest to the water and has the best view but when we came to sit at it yesterday we found....

....a little present left on one of the benches.

I can't imagine what was going through the mind of the person who deposited the dog bag except it seems to be a common practice to leave them beside paths, but to leave it where children might be sitting to eat totally beats me. Why couldn't they just throw it into the bushes or, better still, take it home with them?

Dog bag not withstanding, we sat for a good half hour at the bench. With the tide low and acres of worm-filled mudflats exposed one would have expected hundreds of waders and other shore birds to be working them for food but there were disappointingly few. The main interest was when....

....a roe deer appeared to our left and ran across to the opposite side, watched by a grey heron.