Christine's walking & birds blog

I had time for a quick walk this afternoon, and as there were no birds I whipped a Waitrose carrier bag out of my pocket and picked up some rubbish.

This was the oddest thing. Someone feeding their cat? Later: probably bait. They use a tin of fish to catch other fish. Very intelligent.

I should think the selection of beer cans represented more makes than even Greger knows. As most of them were in the thick of the hawthorns I couldn't reach them. I fished one glass jar out of the water, but otherwise I concentrated on plastic, as that can be harmful to wildlife. You have to watch it though because a bit of brightly coloured plastic may be a bag containing dog poo - several of these had been ranged round the picnic tables, while some had been thoughtfully placed at the foot of the information boards. These people really are charmers!

There is a large rubbish bin at the entrance to the car park. Yet people drive in, stuff their faces and then throw the trash into the bushes - or just drop it out of their car window. I really can't grasp what is going on in their tiny little minds. 

Here's my pathetic effort. The bin when I opened it was full of large black bin-liners containing goodness knows what. I'm pretty sure they weren't full of stuff from the Jubo since the place is still filthy. It probably gets used as a convenient mini-tip.