loch

Spend twenty years digging in the dirt of a narrow, wind-battered strip of land between two lochs.

I was curious about the contours of the imagination animating his dream homes, and he shared some of the prompts he used to create the loch house.

He added: "Such dramatic, indeed astonishing, fluctuations in water levels will play havoc with the shoreline ecology, disrupt natural currents within the loch and potentially raise the temperature of Loch Ness."

They can be found in a variety of freshwater habitats, including ponds, lochs, ditches, wetlands, and streams.

As well as bedraggled volunteers on the shore, hundreds more monster hunters took part from more comfortable surroundings, by watching webcams trained on the loch.