You should always carry your camera ......

because you never know what you'll stumble across. During a brief stop at a service station on the M74 this morning while drifting back to the car I saw an owl out of the corner of my eye - and when I looked again it was still there.

"May I?" was my question and this was the answer.

Oh, I know the background is distracting and a faster lens to throw it out of focus would have helped but they were just about to leave and it had to be there and then, so it was.