If only Common Swift (Apus apus) was as easy to photograph as Common Swift (Korscheltellus lupulina)!! About 80+ mixed Swifts and hirundines were dashing around PHP with the Swifts chasing each other and screaming. A single Great Crested Grebe was having trouble swallowing a large fish whilst another pair had a fly around presumably disturbed by three boat loads of  shouty teenagers. A single Treecreeper was singing. Insect wise it was desperately quiet.

At QE, a singing Firecrest just above the carpark on arrival, lunch (naughtily with a bottle of Pear Cider!) and a stroll along the usual route which was pretty much insectless except for Cheilosias on buttercups, a Comma, Orange Tip and Brimstones and this Green Carpet which is a rather smart moth when fresh.

A quick look at Butser, where Bryn and Jan were part of a BC walk, produced little other than brief views of Green Hairstreak, two Grizzled Skippers, one Cuckoo seen and another heard, two Buzzards chasing each other around and a Red Kite gliding off to the west. Not surprisingly so late in the spring the thousands of Early Purple Orchids (below) were past their best.