Another 'curate's egg' type of day...

...at Blashford where a juvenile Peregrine was circling over Ibsley Water on arrival before drifting off eastwards. News of an Osprey at Kingfisher Lake didn't materialise into a Tern Hide flyover sadly. Plenty of the usual geese and fish-eaters here but just one Common Sandpiper and Walter who had earlier been on Ivy Lake. Later, scanning produced two redhead Goosanders and a surprise in the form of two Cattle Egrets (a site tick I think) which appeared out of thin air and promptly vanished mid-conversation twenty minutes later.

On Ivy Lake a brief visit by one Kingfisher was to the one perch where photography is defeated by light all day; and it scarpered 'tout-suite'.
In the distance, one or possibly two Hobbies put on a great flying display.

Insectwise the heather held a single Dasysyrphus tricinctus and the pond area a female Volucella zonaria plus Xylota segnis; pretty much no other hovers, no Colletes etc but three hunting Hornets and, obviously at this time of year, loads of Migrant Hawkers.

Three tatty Brown Argus and a fresh Comma were the best of the butterflies

The home moth trap held this smart Yellow Shell and Blashford's traps just this Angle Shades and Pebble Hooktip.

Finally, the Red Arrows sped eastwards returning after a display session at Bournemouth.