(Some of this year's Avocets Marmalade Fly, Gatekeeper, Bluetailed damselfly)
... before non-members are readmitted next week.
Typically pretty grey on arrival with the weather improvement coming just after arriving back home!!
Last visit's single small Avocet chick was nowhere to be seen but a family of five featured three even smaller chicks. Much the same otherwise although two Green Sandpipers were on north scrape and it was nice to see three fresh and fledged juvenile Sandwich Terns flanked by juvenile Common Terns, Med Gulls and BHGs. Two Buzzards were dive bombed by a Kestrel and a Sparrowhawk flushed out of a trackside tree - but still no Hobby nor Marsh Harrier and, despite looking, no sign of yesterday's Black Terns nor MF's Roseate. A surprise find was a male Phasia hemiptera on the footpath which I think is the first I've seen here.
