Saturday 29 July 2017

PHP

About 125 mixed martins, mostly House and a couple of Swifts, quite a few Chiff and Blackcap;  Reed Warblers still singing. Still plenty of diptera on umbellifers but few hovers just plenty of M. florea(below) and Syrphus and a few Noon Flies (also below).

A half-hearted spin round the usual park route produced just one P. hemiptera. Masses of unidentifiable diptera, hymenoptera etc on virtually every piece of umbellifer but pretty much zero on Hemp Agrimony and Ragwort. Best was Chrysotoxum festivum which flew in, landed and was gone before I could get the camera up to the eye - a year first.
Eriothrix rufomaculata and Common Blue.

Little and large