Few butterflies, just Small Whites, Brimstone and Peacock. Rather more Epistrophe eligans and first Syrphus spp plus new bees Andrena haemorrhoa and Osmia bicornis.
Bird wise a Magpie stripping plant pot liner from the garden for its nest and probably fifteen or so in the refuge field and just a single flyover Med Gull.
Today, little change although my first Willow Warbler was calling from the island and gulls alerted to a soaring Buzzard, but still no kite; surely some of the downland birds should cruise over the city? Yesterday saw a little flurry of Ospreys into the county with a bird near Gosport being the closest.
Another first today was a female Orange Tip although other butterflies were absent with the first half of the day still but overcast.
(Andrena fulva, Epistrophe eligans, Vespula vulgaris, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2cy Herring Gull)
