Food pass between Male and female Marsh Harriers
Plenty of Painted Ladies, part of the ongoing invasion, and outnumbering all other butterflies totalled.
Along the path side twenty or so Southern Marsh Orchids (probably 200+ in meadow) and a single Common Spotted. Lots of Ragged Robin.
First Black-headed Gull chicks.
Some NfY insects:-
Wasp Beetle x 2 on Hemlock Water Dropwort, Meadow Brown, Cantharis pallida, Cantharis fusca, Cheilosia illustrata, Chrysogaster solstitialis, Roesel's Bush-cricket