The early bird ....

.... in more ways than one.  I misread the time on the clock this morning and what looked like 8.15 to me turned out to be 6.15 and there I was up and dressed and it was just too early to go to church!  I decided to go for a walk round the loch .... it wasn't too busy at seven in the morning.

The swans were feeding among the water weeds, most of the ducks were still snoozing and the geese, apart from one Canada Goose, had not arrived for their daily swim.  I was thrilled to see the heron come in to land on the concrete sluice not far from where I was walking.  He didn't stay long in that exposed area  before flying off to the lochside vegetation where he would hope to catch a small fish or two.