Bonking Beetles and 10-spot Ladybird

   
Text and names under the individual photos, I can't recall seeing a 10-spot Ladybird or a Grey-banded Mining Bee before, with the usual caveats on ID.

10-spot Ladybird Adalia decempunctata, two photos to see the details, it's likely it will get darker with age

Grey-banded Mining Bee Andrena denticulata

Narcissus Bulb Fly

Red Soldier Beetles, making the next generation

Patchwork Leafcutter Bee Megachile centuncularis

Tree Bumblebee Bombus hypnorum

Swift, the best photo so far in declining light around 2000 hrs. The adults are feeding the chicks more often, so my next step is to stand in the street and try to photograph the adults as they enter the nest. Most of my neighbours take some interest and ask what birds they are

Danger Point and Brothock Burn, Arbroath

   
Some photos from Danger Point where the Brothock Burn in Arbroath reaches the sea. I'd been looking for a Mediterranean Gull but the tide was too low, so I had a short walk around the harbour area. I didn't expect to find another Sparrowhawk  there, but there are many House Sparrows in the area, and they hang about in the lobster creels, probably for safety.

I've included more insects from my garden, no guarantees, although I used ObsIdentify, a book and the web.

Male Sparrowhawk that flew down the Brothock Burn at E&O Fish, then banked across the road into a garden at number 1 Shore

Great black-backed Gull 2nd calendar year at Danger Point, where the gulls bathe in the pool as the Brothock Burn spills into the rock pools

Curlew, distant

Female Eider, also a bit far away

Lesser black-backed Gull

One of three Mallard ducklings in the Brothock, my last sighting there was six, assuming the same brood

Herring Gull making its presence known as I stood about 3 metres away

Oystercatcher calling loudly

The Brothock is currently low with no sign of Dippers, just this Pied Wagtail and many House Sparrows

Tan Dance Fly Empis livida

Turnip Sawfly Athalia rosae

Red Soldier Beetle

Tiger Cranefly Nephrotoma quadrifaria

Common Drone Fly Eristalis tenax

Eurasian Drone Fly Eristalis arbustorum

Marmalade Fly

Broad-banded Aphideater or in UK, Meadow Field Syrph Eupeodes latifasciatus 

Buff-tailed Bumblebee

Sparrowhawk versus Starling - no contest

   
Interim post today so I don't have to create a large post later.

Two female Sparrowhawk photos, usually I'd have to wait till winter for a female, and they are usually immatures. 

The hawk was in bushes at the back of my garden having flushed everything, I didn't know that until later when I looked at my security camera. I had walked past it and into my car, and while I was in the car it flew to the edge of my pond. I went back into my kitchen, only then did I see it with a Starling. Photos are from an upstairs window where I could the bird behind some plants.

Sparrowhawk in my garden plucking a young Starling

Yes more Swifts, and more will come when the youngsters start to leave their nest in my roof. They will leave and return often to start with. My neighbours are used to me standing in the street try to get impossible photos...

I suggested to Olive that these two Feral Pigeons reminded me of Olive and I. No comment yet!

One of five Herring Gulls that persisted in landing in the garden, it took ages to stare them down