Four in a Roe

Maybe it's the smell of the square sausage wafting out of the cafe and up over Hawkhill that entices the wildlife out of hiding but, whatever it is, these four roe deer seemed to care not a jot that they'd wandered into the college grounds and were heading straight towards the town centre. They happily grazed for a bit whilst we all watched through the glass from across the car park, until a dog walking nearby sent them springing back into the trees.

What with these, the hawk-walker and ferrets we have visiting, along with the otters and seals and penguins at our other campus (and, not least, some of the wilder types that we have actually enrolled) we're pretty spoiled for choice when it comes to snapping wildlife.

On a complete different subject: Ashtrays.

I wondered why the government was talking about banning the import of them as I listened to a report on the radio earlier. Thought it was maybe some new health related initiative to encourage more people to give up, but thought it was more likely to cause rampant littering of cigarette stubs than anything else. It was only on the route back (after a fine badminton session) that I heard the report again, and realised they were talking about Ash Trees.