Silver Machine - Hawkwind

 Well, despite the suggestion of abandonment we struggle on for now at least, but the futher we venture into Summer the less likelihood of 'interest' for our valued audience with this

CLOUDED SILVER
being all to add to the Year List while also from the traps and maybe of interest singles of

LONGHORN BEETLE

one of the various representations of
HARLEQUIN LADYBIRD
along with an

ICHNEUMAN WASP
Sureley one of, if not 'the' SCARCITY of the year, for our patch at least, was located before even tumbling the padlock combination to access the first Solar Panel Compound the unmistakeable 'reeling' of a

GRASSHOPPER WARBLER
only our second ever here and a sculker that we have never capture on film, and in our dotage, are never likely to and bringing our annual Bird tally to a reasonable (for a postage stamp) 115.

Nowhere near as scarce

but far more handsome this male

CHAFFINCH

just sitting in narcissistic pose.The second and last of the unexpected was a lone 'fly-over' adult

MEDITERRANEAN GULL
(image from the archive)
and back to the Warbler theme as both

SEDGE WARBLER
and

REED WARBLER
have joined the other vocalists at the 2 northern ponds

while last on parade this posing

SMALL TORTOISHELL

with numbers, like every other species, being desperately low!