Late afternoon visit to reservoir. End of summer sense, hardly any butterflies left and only the odd migrant hawker.
Bay with wheedling young, zebra striped great-crested grebe. Water level low, lots of moorhens, at least 25 around the perimeter of this one bay. Lapwings, some hunched along a rocky bank along way from the water.
3 herons distributed widely along the shore and 1 little egret in the shallows.
The reed heads changing from their mauve, dark chocolate to something more worn brown.
Flowering water mint covered with flies and a single small copper.
A tawny owl male calling and finding it very well hidden high in a scots pine.