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Lucky on many accounts, to find three or four birds on a loch in breeding plumage. Then easily find a place to park. Looking at the Loch there was an old building 50m away on the Loch shore. We were able to use the building as cover to get to the edge of the loch, then to keep very low and next to the corner of the building. One diver was feeding in our direction and continued to head towards us and into some still water. It came up directly in front of us………