It is visited in the winter months by at least 20,000 birds, including pink-footed geese, whooper swans, and teals.

A channel at the east end of the bar gave access to the port of Rattray.

[7] Writing in 1794, the minister of Crimond remarked: At the beginning of the present century, this lake was of much smaller extent than it is now.

People born about the beginning of the century well remembered the first overflowing of the W. part of the loch, though the particular year is not now known, but it must have been about 1720.

The ruined windmill on the shore of the loch and the drainage channel linking it to the sea are relics of this time.