Bought a few more plants for the garden and went up to QECP.
The weather was solidly grey, none too warm but only a light breeze. The only obvious insects were Rhagonycha fulva and Episyrphus balteatus mostly on umbellifers with one or two Pammene aurana (micromoth) and a few Meadow Browns and Red Admirals disturbed from long grass. Bees barely in double figures, no wasps and only one sheltering Ichneumon.
This hover, Scaeva pyrastri, was easily the best of the day.
Not a peep from any Firecrests.
