Last visit for 2020

On the afternoon of Thursday 31st December, I went back to Lake Lothing, the omens didn't look too good, as there was no initial sign of the RBM and 3 'fishermen' were walking about on the concrete pier, but I saw a close Redshank on the rocks just north of the wooden posts that just eluded the camera and a more distant Little Grebe. Suddenly, I spotted the female Red- breasted Merganser swimming left and near the channel, she then swam back and a boat coming in flushed it again and it flew towards the channel before settling down just beyond the wooden posts, reasonably close where I managed a few pics and there were now 2 Little Grebes together. As the sun became enveloped by cloud, the now silhouetted RBM came even closer, why is it more confiding when it gets cloudy?