Cool school!!

Nice weather with the insect spot still nicely sheltered but gazillions of dog toting people and kids etc. Usual heard birds, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, GSW, Cola Tit - just 30+ House Martins high overhead - no swifts nor other hirundines. With so much boat and canoe activity nothing on the water.

Black-tailed Skimmers, Brown and Southern Hawkers plus a few blue damsels.

The conopids etc were in the same area but most of the umbellifer is gone over, - luckily, on the othe side of the path, loads of water mint with plenty of stuff, possibly up to 20 Volucellas plus a variety of other hovers the best being Xanthogramma pedisequum and Chrysotoxum bicinctum.

Just one Buzzard soaring up in the east.