Food pass between male and female Marsh Harriers
Plenty of Painted Ladies, part of the ongoing invasion, and outnumbering all other butterflies totalled.
Along the path-side twenty or so Southern Marsh Orchids (probably 200+ in meadow) and a single Common Spotted. Lots of Ragged Robin.
First Black-headed Gull chicks.
Some NfY insects:-
Wasp Beetle x 2 on Hemlock Water Dropwort, Meadow Brown, Cantharis pallida, Cantharis fusca, Cheilosia illustrata, Chrysogaster solstitialis, Roesel's Bush-cricket
