The most enjoyable thing about one of our occasional visits to Tain, during which Mrs MW pillages Lidl while I take a walk down to the town's pleasant frontage on the Dornoch Firth, is the wildfowl that gather close in to the shore. On a good day there can be hundreds of birds, mainly teal and widgeon but also shelduck, mallard, redshank, curlew and oystercatchers. For a moment today the prospect was promising but a closer look revealed....
I didn't mind too much except that I feel I stick out amongst the other humans promenading there. They are all, without exception, being taken for a walk by a dog, and I feel a little.... ownerless.
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