Awake at 4am as usual and rather wished I'd put the moth trap out as tonight has a decent amount of rain in the forecast. At first light Med Gulls were heading overhead calling and a hour or two later a fox was in and out of the gardens.
A local walk found three Reed Warblers singing with the assumed departed bird adjacent to the library singing strongly again. The swans are now down to a single cygnet and on the island four tea-plate sized terrapins were basking.
Last week Yellow-legged Mining Bees were still excavating in the compacted soil in the six-a-side goal mouths with their parasite Nomada fucata in attendance; today just the N.fucata was seen.
The Water Mint in the pond is coming along but just one male Broad-bodied Chaser hunkering down out of the breeze and no other Odonata. Numerous Swollen-thighed Beetles and a few Broad Centurions plus a single Eristalinus sepulchralis were the only obvious insects mostly on Ox-eyes.
A single Agapeta hamana, my first this year was seen.
No photos.
