Grey Heron

Popped up to the loch this afternoon, the young one spotted me first and was over before I knew where she had come from. I had just started feeding her when the geese and pigeons all appeared showing  great interest in what she was getting. This has happened before and is puts her off a bit. This time I was prepared, I had brought bird food as well so threw a couple of handfuls further along the bank to give the young one peace to eat. Everything was going well until two young boys out with their father were taking great delight in frightening all the birds as they ran along the path. As they ran past yelling at them everything just took off including the young one. I was quite annoyed that their father had just let them do this all the way round the path (he was keeping his distance going the longer way around). I don't blame the boys as much as the father although the boys were old enough to know better. Anyway as soon as they had passed the young one was straight back to let me finish feeding her.