Aveley Pool is just getting better and better and today hosted the following species of wader: 11 Black Tailed Godwit, 11 Little Ringed Plovers, Ruff, 3 Common Terns, 5 Green Sandpipers, 3 Greenshank, 5 Snipe, Redshank along with a hawking Hobby and many Sand Martins. Down on the Thames a single Bar-tailed Godwit was noteworthy along with 2 Whimbrel. Four Sandwich terns headed west up river.
There has been a big emergence of hoverflies with several good species amongst the myriad of Marmalades!
Episyrphus balteatus also known as the Marmalade Hoverfly
Chrysotoxum bicinctum
Helophilus pendulus
Scaeva pyrastri