Lake Constance

by Mike Oldfield

Three work related presentations prepared in the morning, breakfast, packing for the cottage and then seeing my wife's mother at the nursing home before driving to the cottage. I had not taken one blip and I was getting a bit frustrated as I was to warm the sauna soon. Suddenly my wife alerted me to black-throated diver in "our" bay.a  It dived and I hurried to the shore. Just when I had switched the camera on, the bird surfaced perhaps 10 m away from me and I started shooting. It sped away while keeping an eye on me. After perhaps 10 shots, it dived again to surface quite far off.