Local stuff.
First Essex Skippers, Black-tailed Skimmer and Common Darter of the year plus this beetle confirmed as Paropisterna selmani (Tasmanian Eucalyptus Beetle).
GWH Plant Fair
Little on offer today, just this Cheilosia illustrata and a few Common Spotted and Pyramidal Orchids.
Iping Common
Thyridanthrax fenestratus. Plenty of these in company of Ammophila sand wasps - possibly pubescens
A bee casualty of Cerceris rybiensis and one of many (hundreds) Silver-studded Blues, predominantly males.
Nice to hear Tree Pipits, Woodlarks, Yellowhammers and Dartford Warblers with great views of one male of the latter which came in close and perched up. A single Spotted Flycatcher was my best bird of the morning; sad how they've declined so far.
Lunch at Aylings and back out for another hour on the common where it was now too hot to enjoy. Distant kites, buzzards and Swallows were it on the 'aerialist' front.
