Nikki M
Chiffchaff, 3 Buzzard, Swift.
Blown-lipped snail.
Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Large Skipper, Common Blue, Small Tortoiseshell (on butterfly bank), Silver-ground moth, Celyph lacunana, Yellow Shell, Common Carpet, Mint moth (Pyrausta aurata).
3 Azure damselfly and tadpoles (middle pond); C30 Azure damselfly (many in cop and ovipositing) and 3 Large Red damselfly (Bottom Pond); 1 Large Red damselfly.
Noon fly, Golden-bloomed Grey-longhorn beetle, Common wasp, Black and Red froghopper, Mayfly on wing, pair of 22-spot Ladybird in cop, a Soldier beetle (Cantharis nigricans), pair of Woundwort Shield bug in cop, a hoverfly (Leucozona lucorum), Common Green Grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus), a Marsh fly (Tetanocera elata), a picture winged fly (Seioptera vibrans), Slender Groundhopper (Tetrix subulate).
In flower: Meadow vetchling, Yellow Rattle, Blue Iris, Ragged Robin, Elderflower, Hogweed, Cow Parsley, Common Vetch, Bush Vetch, Bramble, Buttercup, Herb Robert, Goats Beard, Ground Ivy, Foxglove, Woundwort, Rosebay Willow Herb, Hybrid Common/S Marsh Orchid, Spear Thistle, Marsh Orchid, Monkey Flower, Ox-eye Daisy, Dog Rose.