Hello Reader, This week on the water The lake has frozen, and thawed. While frozen, our resident gang of cormorants naturally deserted us. But now that the water – and the silvery treasure within it – is once more accessible, they’re back, hunting in a pack, three or four of them roving the surface, barely head and neck above water, then diving in synchronised fashion in pursuit of their lunch. I spend minutes on end watching for them to reappear. It’s difficult to predict where they will pop...