Rocky Burn Oyster Catcher - sad tale

[Ship called Dignity]

Don't know if many of you knew but an OysterCatcher recently built its nest on the road wall at the Rocky Burn.

Mary Turner sent me a photo of this - but I didn't want to highlight the story incase anything happened to the nest.



(Sorry if the photo is big - don't have much time)

Needless to say, however, a group of youths were seen a couple of Sundays ago throwing the eggs at the dyke - the person who saw them didn't get there in time and by the time he arrived the eggs were both smashed. They had also left a pile of crisp, sweet papers etc on the road.

As Mary says herself 'What is the world coming to?'

Perhaps one you could pick up Ranald for the Courier?

[4th gen Suthen']

That is a real shame......hope some day the youths concerned realise what they have done and are suitably ashamed..............

Many times when I am jogging round the Leerside I find piles of stuff dumped from cars...ranging from empty beer cans to a full bin bag of house party..aye and worse..........

How can people do that to the beautiful environment we live in.....

Killing lovely birds much worse of course.

[petewick]

Lovely picture Davie, really saddened me to learn of what happened to the nest.
I am really fond of that area of our town, and have spent a good number of years walking that stretch of road, stopping at the Rocky Burn for a drink of ice cold water.
I hope that these youngsters sooner or later regret their actions.
Petewick