A quick trip up the A3 to collect my membership card.
Surprised that all the outdoor seating was gone just ten minutes after opening, but luckily it was cool inside.
Not much on offer today but the pond's loosestrife held a few bees of the same name, whilst the pond had some feather-gilled newts and a Haematopota cleg.
Volucella zonaria and Cheilosia illustrata were the only notable hoverflies.
Plenty of butterflies, albeit the usual suspects. Strangely, no Painted Ladies today.
'Bonking beetles' have now replaced Swollen-thigheds.
Eriothrix rufomaculata and Common Green Grasshopper
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