After completing our food prep for tomorrow, we went for a Christmas Eve wander around one of the nearby reservoirs. It has been a very gloomy day and the cloud was starting to form into a think mist above the trees and fields as we set off for an our walk.

At we made our way around the very muddy path, we stopped at some of the fishing platforms, which made for some very nice, atmospheric photos across the flat calm lake.

There were two wildlife sitings of note as we wandered. First, were an adult and juvenile white-fronted geese, our first siting of this species this year. Second was quite an odd view of a Daubenton’s bat flying low over the water. I haven’t seen one of these bats for a long time and to see one on Christmas Eve must be quite unusual – but given it was 10c, not as surprising as it seems.