More lens testing

Despite blue skies the strong and cold wind made it uncomfortable and nothing was posing within range of the camera. The two Marsh Harriers plus 6-8 Buzzards and two Kestrels kept typically distant. This Chiffchaff below was distant and unobliging (so a massive crop).
Too choppy to bother with the sea and too 'gull ridden' on the west side.
Probably best moment was watching 50+ very vocal Turnstones surrounding two fighting Mallards, almost egging them on like schoolboys in a playground fight!!

Sad to see (for TH birders!) that Selsey had an in-off Osprey!! Ggggrrr!

An Andrena bee spp (maybe bicolor), Meliscaeva auricollis, Episyrphus balteatus, Eristalis tenax and male Syrphus spp (below) were all doable with new lens. A diptera ID outstanding. EDIT - Calliphoridae, Pollenia spp.
No Common Lizards out basking today.

At home still only male Anthophora plumipes; no females yet.

Syrphus spp

And the view from Meonshore.