Hello friend π
Reading your post felt like I was walking with you. You know I love such lakes a lot when I went to the Northern Areas a few months ago I saw many such lakes there and since then I have fallen in love with these lakes. Your pictures are quite beautiful the color of the water and the sky cannot be distinguished and there is no doubt that a good walk makes you mentally and physically strong and gets rid of such a bad thing as stress.
I have seen this bird only once in reality and that too from a distance and I could not get a good short but its legs were light pink. There are more chances of mosquitoes near such lakes and like you I also fight mosquitoes every night.π
Walking around the lake, or in the forest, or both, is something you can best do... I don't know why, by being close to the water is always satisfying... π
On the other side, being close to the water, in summer/autumn can attract those bloody mosquitoes... π€£