Female Andrena haemorrhoa, Dunnock, Peacock male Syrphus spp, blossom and Green Shield Bug above.
A return to nice weather after the last few days saw plenty of Peacocks out and feeding on dandelions in between bouts of 'dog fighting', a couple of Commas, another male Orange Tip and best of all my first Holly Blue almost the same colour as the sky. This female Andrea haemorrhoa was the only bee happy to sit up for a picture; the few Nomadas were particularly skittish.
This Dunnock below was the first I've seen since lockdown.
Things hotted up on the return with the low pitched 'kek-kek' of a female Peregrine alerting me to her presence - the sound of Peregrine interaction. And low and behold after a few hundred yards she caught up with a male - the two 'threw some shapes' before going their separate ways with the female still calling and setting off towards a Buzzard.
A minute or two later the gulls went nuts alerting to something not immediately visible but which turned into patch gold (or thereabouts!) in the shape of a Red Kite, the first since lockdown and only second here ever for me.
Also noted it was a garden tick for another birder in the area via HGB later in the day.
