Today we saw an otter eating its fishy breakfast just off the seawall walkway at Holywood. For 10 minutes it slipped in and out of view, sometimes just a raised line in the water, sometimes head up, jaws wide open and a fish clutched in its front paws and then a downward roll and just a magnificent tail slipping back below the water.

We were probably looking for seals (quite common here), or maybe Eider, but we were looking, and that makes all the difference!