I was without a PC for most of the week, so this group of photos spans many days starting with a few birds, then butterflies and insects. A surprise Speckled Wood on Saturday is the highlight for me, and my "resident" Sparrowhawk has kept the birds away. One of the Keptie Pond juvenile Herons posed on a raft and a Tiger Cranefly was photographed as it sheltered in the garden.
Two short video clips in UHD below
Male Sparrowhawk in my garden, pretty sure the same one that's been around from last autumn
Also deterring the songbirds, a few Rooks, a Crow today, a Jackdaw and three cats filmed on a security camera most nights
This Heron looks brand new, I wonder if it's newly moulted or one of the two juveniles successfully fledged a week or more now, Keptie Pond, Arbroath
This photo confirms it's a juvenile
Tufted drake
Lesser black-backed Gull in what turned out to be a heavy shower
Back in my garden, a Tiger Cranefly Nephrotoma flavescens
A garden first! A Speckled Wood Butterfly
Underwing
Large White Butterfly, note the black wing edge curves around the corner, a Small White only on the top edge
Red Admiral
ObsIdentify was 100% sure this is a Willughby's Leafcutter Bee Megachile willughbiella
Migrant Hoverfly
Narcissus Bulb Fly
Buffish Mining Bee maybe...
Common Green Capsid Lygocoris pabulinus
Garden Bumblebee
Red-tailed Bumblebee
Buff-tailed Bumblebee, well worn
Speckled Wood, arty photo when compared to the ones at the start
The feathers of a young Sparrow in the garden, the following day the Sparrowhawk was plucking another on a fence post
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