Sunday 5 August 2018














"It was this big, honest!!"




















One of two nice and obvious Garden Tigers, with, also one of two, Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwings, the latter being new for CRlist.
Not much else although there is a cute micro fridged for later ID.

At TH, the Volucellas were in the same place but not much other insect action.
This juvenile Kestrel was one of two hunting the meadow whilst the male Sparrowhawk cruised the hedges chased by noisy Swallows; the juveniles were still noisy but invisible near the dipping pond.

Amy advised me of two Wood Sandpipers on south scrape, one above, along with 3 Green Sand, 15 Dunlin, 2 Common Sand and three Snipe. Two distant Swifts were the only other notables.

Edit. The micro was Scythropia crataegella, a hawthorn specialist, NfG/T.
A female Common Blue turned up to investigate the Lavender bush at the end of the day.