Luck

Another fight with the weather - it looks good so you go out and it starts raining again! I sat and watched an Otter for an hour while it rained and I was on the point of giving up when the rain stopped and the beast headed for shore - a lucky break!

The Otter had a good clean up on the shore before heading back out for more fishing.

There was a Hooded Crow foraging in the same area and I watched as he found a large bone of some description and proceeded to try dropping it on the rocks to break it open! The rain came back so I moved a bit closer to home and took a few snaps of this Grey Heron enjoying the shower.

A wee bit further along the road I got my eye on another Otter but the light was pretty bad...

...and it looked like it was on a mission to be somewhere else.

Another stroke of luck - the sun came out just as the Otter came ashore.

A bit of a clean up and then a drink from the sea.

Look at the size of those feet - surely they belong to someone else!

It's nice to see the Red-breasted Merganser back into the breeding plumage...

...and a quick visit by nine Canada Goose was nice to get on the patch list.