A first stop at PHP produced a none-too-special site tick in the form of an adult Common Tern; maybe twenty hirundines of three species, the heron on his rail, a single Little Grebe and a few croaking Reed Warblers.
Insect Alley was very hot although the shaded east side was very wet underfoot with dew; the mint here was attractive to a few Volucellas as per last year plus Platycheirus rosarum and loads of 'batmen'. Several of these Tachina fera plus the odd Conops quadrifasciatus, Ectemnius etc. Some of the heather looks quite good but much of it is parched; no obvious Heather Colletes in a brief look and just this Small Copper plus lots of Common Blues.
Lunch at QECP where just a number of Figwort Sawflies and Southern Hawker by the pond. Gave up and retired to somewhere cooler.
