A water monster?   It was an ideal day for a walk with very few clouds this morning and good visibility although there were a few flurries of snowflakes later in the afternoon at home.  Ice lay in the puddles and on some plants in the streams and on shallow areas of Gladhouse Reservoir but the sun soon melted the frost.  There were thousands of pregnant sheep in fields, hundreds of geese, dozens of lapwings and a few hares. 
By the outflow of the reservoir several workers were checking the “air curtain” which is marked by orange buoys.  We were told that this is a very important feature to ensure the water quality whereby millions of bubbles are released aerating the water to disperse potential impurities like algae.  As the bubbles create negative buoyancy it would be very dangerous for any swimmer or boat and they would be dragged underwater.   Recently the reservoir has become popular with swimmers, paddle boarders and fishermen but the only swimmers today were geese, ducks and two swans and apart from the workers at the dam we saw no one else during our walk around the reservoir.

(I tried several times yesterday to upload this but had no luck)