Life in Newburgh on Ythan

By Talpa

A hangout of shags

Shags roosting near to the entrance to Loch Coruisk.

In most of Britain a shag is a long-necked, fish-eating sea-bird, but here in the North East of Scotland it can also be an ox which has been castrated incompletely or when fully grown. Oh, the complexities of our language!

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