A brief shopping trip to Chi for a longer Arca Swiss plate for the new Manfrotto ballhead was unsuccesful but it was worth it for the sight and sounds of nesting House Martins along East Street (albeit in ever reducing numbers). At the cathedral, this young Blackbird was being fed by its dad, a 2cy bird looking pretty scruffy now; soon time for a full moult.
About a dozen Swifts were overhead and one, possibly two Red Kites were drifting around. Both adult Peregrines were present and noisy overhead and one juvenile (BL93) in the nest turret was vigorously wing-flapping before it or another took a maiden flight and returned confidently before a slightly undignified landing on the lower tracery where it remained to 'catch its breath' whilst the adults looked on disinterestedly. Not enough parking for a longer session.
Back home, other than a few moths, the summer's absence of insects (flies, bees and wasps) continues with just the ubiquitous Sphaerophoria scripta and Syritta pipiens plus a brief visit from a neat Megachile bee
