Last night we went for a sunset swim and then sat on the bank, drinking our tea and watching bats swooping over the meadows. According to B's bat detector, we saw at least four different types of bat (pipistrelle, noctule, serotine, leisler) and possibly a fifth (daubenton) although I have to admit that they all just looked like small fast flappy things to me.

The water was still and quiet for our swim; as the sun set, it seemed to flatten even more, becoming a still mirror which reflected a flight of white gulls which flew past one way and then back the other, like spirits flitting in the twilight.

Driving home, I saw a hedgehog trundling its way across the road not far from my house; a change from the usual cats.