After the recent Small Elephant and Privet Hawkmoths today's bog-standard Elephant wasn't too much of a surprise; neither was the reduced catch due to a cooler night. My first Angle Shades of the year was nice to see as always as was a Barred Straw. The first Double-barred Pug was already worn and the only pug spp today. Just a single caddis fly today.

Back into Chi again to pick up a replacement UV filter and lens cap and on to PB where a session on the heath produced lots of Anthophora bimaculata, Cerceris rybyensis, Sphecodes bees, Ectemnius spp plus Choerades marginatus and a single Sercomyia silentis but still no darters, Volucellas, Criorhinas.
Too much to see and record. No sound of yesterday's Crossbills.

Reception pond had Four-spot, BBC and two Emperors, the female ovipositing plus a few small newts; Great-crested Newts were seen by the pond-dipping school group according to Lucy.

The Lesser Whitethroat was still singing strongly and continuously along the tarmac path and it was nice to sit back on a bench, close my eyes and just enjoy listening to it; pretty little else still singing.

Best sighting on the 'main' reserve was a super, low-pass flyby by a Hobby just minutes after predicting to visitors that we'd see one, followed soon after by a soaring Sparrowhawk.

Things got better over a cuppa with Pete when some squealing from the other side of the tea-terrace fence alerted to a Stoat dispatching a Rabbit before dragging it bit by bit into cover along the fenceline attracting the attention of a crow on the way; a real Springwatch moment!!