A quick stroll after this morning's Covid jab saw a new brood of Mallards, about a dozen strong.
Along the south side of the field this Suplur Tubic (Esperia sulphurella) on an umbellifer was, for a very common moth, an unxpected 'lifer' for me.
A cold southerly and overcast skies with temperatures barely into double figures put paid to flying inverts.
(Xysticus spider, Nomada fucata, Andrena minutula group a.k.a mini-miner and Nomada goodeniana).
Tuesday
Nomada zonata, Melangyna cincta and Leucophora spp (most likely obtusa (False House Fly aka Hairy Bee-shadower) below
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Today
Epistrophe eligans, Peacock, Bluebell spp/hybrid, Nomada spp all below
Also seen Peacock(4), Comma(1), Small White(2), Brimstone(1)
Bee-fly (10-20) and a single Andrena cineraria
Med Gull 5, Cettis Warbler 2
