It's a LINNET IN-IT?

 With the Solstice just past we were expecting a little less of this

and a little more overnight warmth but still a few new Moths for the Year are tumbling in, such as:-

BEAUTIFUL HOOK-TIP
the very variable

COMMON MARBLED CARPET
while maybe of novelty value

FOX MOTH
still depositing eggs on the trays on a daily basis now, along with a

Fist Full of Hawk-moths
Poplar Hawk-moths at the extremeties and Private Hawk taking the middle ground while juvenile

BLACKBIRDs

hone their hunting skills

on the lawn

under the watchful eye of Dad.

First to be spotted at the Gravel Pit c2

COMMON SWIFT
seen to be flying purposefully north, our first of the year, while just taking it easy the juv

LITTLE GREBE
seems unaware of the
Clear and Present Danger
as the

LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLs

carry out what is now a daily ritual.
Back South, and this is the only representative across the 'patch' of

RED CHESTNUT

looking most resplendent
while keeping with the "colour theme" we can now see in

Black and White
that the Sheep are escaping under the fence-line!
A Brief Encounter indeed as this

ROE DEER 

has a brief trist with a
MOORHEN

juvenile
GREENFINCH

KESTREL

in hover and

juvenile
LINNET