A selection of insects from my garden and some photos of the Swifts and their nest, they are returning in the evenings and putting on a show, all too fast and in the fading light.
The insects have been identified in the ObsIdentify app, Paul D Brook's book and Steven Falk's Flickr pages, no guarantees!
Videos from West Links in Arbroath, filmed while waiting for a Mediterranean Gull that didn't appear.
Lesser black-backed Gull at West Links Arbroath Jackdaw eating a strawberry, Curlew feeding Redshanks feeding
Lesser black-backed Gull at West Links Arbroath Jackdaw eating a strawberry, Curlew feeding Redshanks feeding
Common Banded Hoverfly
Common Carder Bee
Common Soldier Beetle
Early Mason Wasp
Common Frog adult
Green-veined White Butterfly
Grey-banded Mining Bee Andrena denticulata or Chocolate Mining Bee Andrena scotica
Grey-spotted Sedgesitter aka White-footed Hoverfly
Gwynne's Mining Bee
Honey Bee
House Martin
Large White Butterfly Caterpillar
Lunuled Aphideater aka Black-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes luniger
Lunuled Aphideater aka Black-tailed Aphideater Eupeodes luniger
Marmalade Fly
Narcissus Bulb Fly
Red-sided Parasite Fly Eriothrix rufomaculatus
Seven-spot Ladybird
Sheepstrike Greenbottle Lucilia sericata
Small White Butterfly egg
Swift, and more below
The Swifts are nesting in the hole in the cement edging. I'll have to close it up before winter and I'll put up a Swift Box. The old Sky dish will have to go and I'm hoping the Swifts will still recognise the site and adopt the box
Tan Dance Fly aka Dagger Fly Empis livida
Tree Wasp Dolichovespula sylvestris
Common Wasp killing a Silver Y Moth, which had just emerged
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