Another hot day saw an early morning cuppa in the conservatory partly to escape the heat and partly to chase the foxes off!!
A couple of Swift high overhead and some noisy Med Gulls preceded a brief visit from a Hummingbird Hawkmoth which quickly departed when it found no nectar source.
At the pond the library patch now has a strongly singing Reed Warbler plus a second calling bird; one of this year's young?
Several Emperor dragonflies and a Black-tailed Skimmer on the small pond and, unsurprisingly, now plenty of Essex Skippers along the butterfly path plus this feisty Small Copper. A couple of Painted Ladies also.
This Blue-bordered Carpet was a nice daylight find - a common enough moth but one which I've only caught twice before the last being almost exactly eight years ago.
