Scotland's National Animal

Today James, David and I set off on our annual trip to Queen Elizabeth Forest Park to choose our Christmas tree. After selecting a fine specimen we had a pleasant lunch in the café with views over the bleak winter landscape.

Then we went for a wee post lunch walk down to the waterfall and the bird hide. It was very chilly with patches of thin snow. In the bird hide was a visitors' book to record sightings of birds and animals which I idly leafed through. I came across the following entry:

"We saw some red squirrels but this was interrupted by yet another unicorn sighting. Why didn't Scotland choose a rarer breed as its national animal?"

I also came across entries claiming to have seen donkeys, zebras and even monkeys! It did make me laugh.