'Being a bird lover all my life it was horrendous thing to watch. If folk can't control their dogs keep them on a lead.'
Concerned photographer Brian Beer, 72, snapped the scene as the bird was hounded at Fairlie Bay, North Ayrshire.
"Being a bird lover all my life it was horrendous thing to watch. If folk can't control their dogs keep them on a lead." He says: "The heron seemed OK after its ordeal and disappeared. I searched for the bird with my binoculars but couldn't see it."
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