Chilly and still at 6am with the moon still high in the sky and an unsurprisingly minimal catch not even reaching double figures.
Mother of Pearl, B-lB-e and this Cabbage Moth which was only the second and new for the garden.
PB was pretty thin but LRP, a few each of Common and Green Sandpipers, three Ravens and a brief flyby Cuckoo were the best. A few hovers of which Platycheirus rosarum, Eristalinus sepulchralis and Anasymia lineata (on the pond) were the best.
Caught up with PW, Alan etc plus Michelle for the third time in recent months.
Black Pond is drying out reducing Odonata numbers and variety and Black Wood was silent; looking out across Hail's produced two typical juvenile Buzzards whining but the bone-dry mud was pretty uninspiring. The bee hotspot was much the same but severely reduced in numbers but a single Beewolf and Ruby-tailed Wasp (Hedychrum spp) was nice.
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