Time to get back to bird photos and posts, so these are the last from around the garden. The under 18 bird scarers will be back in education soon which means there will be less disturbance at many of my sites, and hopefully increasing numbers of returning migrants.
I believe this is a worn Double-striped Pug Moth which was photographed in the evening on Olive's window. I suppose I'll have to clean the window when she sees this photo!
Got an ID for this from Anne and my own research, it's a Small Black Ant (Lasius niger) and is a new queen which has dropped its wings after its mating flight
Now with better Common Wasp photos I think I understand why a previous photo had me confused as it was thought only four spots were present on the thorax and yet this shows six. I think this is a female worker (that's complicated, read up elsewhere) the sex symbol I found against similar photos was a female symbol with a small semi-circle attached
This is the same wasp but the angle of the thorax doesn't show the six spots
This photo shows the mostly hidden spots which are larger than the other two pairs
The last Marmalade Hoverfly photos of this season, unless I get something unusual
I took over one hundred photos just to get this one! They're not very big but very fast
I've been trying to corroborate my neighbours identification of "Moss Carders Bumblebees" for sometime now. Some photos looked good but shadows looked like black hairs, I believe, other photos may well have been Common Carders. These two photos are my best candidates for Moss Carder along with many more blurred, out of focus, or just not good enough to post examples
Small Tortoiseshell
"Large" Small White or "small" Large White, I can't remember which it was and they have overlapping features, both species are visiting daily
My nemesis, this male Herring Gull has been coming to my garden for years now, it seems to know I won't harm it even though I chase it away often. It sits and watches everything and given the slightest chance it's in and away with anything it thinks it can eat. Recently I've see some elsewhere with a carrot, an apple, a golf ball and a feral pigeon!
It fools some of my visitors (rescued on the beach at Buddon Ness)