A walk (well hobble) around PHP produced the usual songsters, just a single Great-crested Grebe and probably 25 House Martins and 10 Swifts. About 10 Med Gulls either came into the lake for a wash and brush up, departed to the south or silently soared high over head. The insect ' hot spot' was devoid of anything but a single conopid Sicus ferrugineus, Meadow Browns, the odd longhorn beetles and bees; not a hover to be seen. The lake and the path had loads of male Black-tailed Skimmers, probably in excess of 50 but just Azure Damsels in addition.
Later at QECP, renewing parking permit, a few hovers including Volucella pellucens and Bacchia elongata, two tachinids Gymnosoma rotundatum and Zophomyia temula, two Buzzards thermalling over the road and one Firecrest. Most notable were plenty of newly emerged Marbled Whites and two fresh Small Torts plus more Meadow Browns the latter looking determinedly for shade.
