After yesterday's Whiskered Tern excitement today was a much more mundane affair. Like many days it started with another bit of playing and anecdotes from Leland Sklar on youtube followed by a particularly lazy morning and another session on the 1000 pc insect jigsaw.
Again too hot to warrant going too far afield so just a local leg stretch with pretty much no birdlife and not too many insects although Swollen-thighed Beetles are now common and plenty of the parasitic ichneumon Amblyteles armatorius were on the wing; first conopid of the year was Sicus ferrugineus, soldier fly Chloromyia formosa and hoverfly Syritta pipiens.
EDIT. Judging by call sounds, the Great Spotted Woodpecker seen last week was almost certainly attending a nest today in the same area it flew into last time.
