Was rather astonished to find this view looking westwards from the bridge over Threipmuir reservoir that takes you up to Bavelaw Castle:
I was last out that way in mid-June, when Black Springs was looking worryingly dry, but the level looked OK from the bridge from which that photo was taken, with large fish jumping for insects and wildfowl swimming about. Yesterday the Black Springs end looked better, with some (not a lot, but some) flow through sluice below the causeway, and a fair quantity of wildfowl including three whooper swans and several score of grey geese (I didn't have my binoculars with me so couldn't id which species for certain - default would be greylag). The beaches on the main body of the reservoir looked smaller than when we were last there, as well.
So it looks as if the situation has somehow been reversed since then. I took a quick detour down the causeway towards Easter Bavelaw and it didn't look as if any water was getting through the sluice there. Maybe it's been closed deliberately, if the Bavelaw Burn has dried up?
At least the wildfowl at Bavelaw seemed fairly happy with the combination of mostly mud with just a bit of open water. I spotted an egret there, and disturbed a grey heron under the bridge which flew off cursing me audibly in heronish.
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