Another Trip to Camas

Fishing from Badentarbet Pier on the way home. Cyclops got his first cast in the water, and quickly felt a pull so started winding in. We could see a flash of silver coming towards us, which a great skua immediately attacked. Cyclops exclaimed in dismay that a bird was going to get the fish before he did, and wound in faster. Only as it got really close did we realise the flash of silver was the white belly of a guillemot that had taken the lure, and that the skua was trying to steal the guillemots catch! So Cyclops had to haul this distressed and entangled guillemot still being attacked by a skua up the side of the pier, all the while shouting furiously in an attempt to discourage the skua. We had absolutely not a scooby how we would deal with this, but fortunately there was another guy fishing who dashed over and said he would help - it turns out he keeps pigeons so knows how to handle birds. He freed the guillemot which seemed little worse for its ordeal and flew off, managing to avoid the loitering skua. Went fishing, caught a bird. CyclopsJnr thought it was the funniest thing that had ever happened, and suggested that maybe we'd catch a whale or a dolphin next....