Still thin at PHP....

With rain forecast there seemed little reason to go too far so a half loop and back round the pond punctuated with coffee and ciabatta produced a Garden Warbler from the carpark, the first this year but pretty much no other birds except a few mostly invisible House Martins and two or three unseen singing Reed Warblers (new in since last visit), one in the east side bramble clump.

The terrapins below were warming up in the odd patch of sunlight between clouds.

Looking for insects produced little other than the usual hovers with a single Eristalis intricaria the best, a few mostly uncooperative bees and two micromoths awaiting ID. This common lizard was reasonably obliging as was the Sarcophaga flesh fly - but then they always are - if only all insects were this photogenic. Orange Tip, all males were the commonest butterfly and a single Holly Blue was new for 2018.

On the bee front Nomada goodeniana and via FB Andrena nigroaenea and A. barbilabris (both male and female). First worker bumblebees were out but too quick for any pictures. Yet again the strong breeze tended to blow things away and out of sight.
It was also St Marks fly day with gazillions!!

An attempt to photograph a close-in Great Crested Grebe was thwarted by a plank throwing sticks into the pond for his dog - these people are numpties!!

PS Moths ID'd as Cydia ulicetana and Adela reaumurella.