Here are a few photos and a video from in and around the garden today.
One of the two Swifts which passed over the garden
Looking through the Cherry Tree I could see a juvenile Great Tit on the bird feeder.
A juvenile House Sparrow sat in the Buddleia............
................. waiting for mum to come and feed him.
A Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta basking on an Oak leaf.
And then feeding on the nectar from this Buddleia.
Before flying off to another flower.
A Honey Bee Apis mellifera in amongst the lavender.
A Vagrant Hoverfly Eupeodes corollae.
A Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax with a Greenbottle Lucilia sp. looking down at it.
A Syrphus hoverfly sp.
A Common Red Soldier Beetle Rhagonycha fulva
Dawn adding the...........
..............finishing touches to the "Bug House" she just made.
