At Butser a quick chat with another butterflier, (in part about not being Europeans anymore!!) confirmed there were some Dark Green Fritillaries on the wing although I couldn't find any. Last month's Early Purple Orchids now replaced by Common Spotted and most Burnet Moths now looking faded. A Lime-speck Pug posed for a photo plus Common Blues, Dingy Skippers, Meadow Browns, Large Skippers, Small Tortoiseshells and a single Painted Lady and a few hovers, the best being Chrysotoxum bicinctum.
This Med Gull was one of thirty or more - who would have thought years ago that Med Gulls would be the most numerous bird here!!
The gulls were joined very briefly by nine Red Arrows roaring by, I'm guessing on their way to Goodwood Festival of Speed.
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QECP produced male Emperor and Broad-bodied Chaser a few more Common Spotted Orchid, two Firecrests and a nice pair of Buzzard chasing each other and rather more flies etc than yesterday including hover Epistrophe diaphana.
Stansted, mostly a visit to garden centre, produced a few more Cheilosia illustrata, four species of Eristalis and a couple of singing Goldcrest.
