An eclectic mix

A light SW wind. Overcast with light showers in the morning, but the sun came out mid afternoon.

Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)

Male Blackcap - in punk mode

Green-veined White

Gatekeeper 

Female Black-Tailed Skimmer

Red Nab/Saltmarsh - high water 10:40 (MD)

Eider 1 female

Redshank 2

Mediterranean gull 23 - 19 adult, 1 x 3rd calendar year, 2 x 2nd calendar year, 1 juvenile. No darvic rings seen.

Juvenile Med directly behind the flying Med

Rock Pipit 2 - one each Red Nab and foreshore 

Hummingbird Hawkmoth 1 on shingles north of the slipway  - it managed to avoid being photographed today.

Just out of the recording area - Heysham Moss Nature Reserve (MD)

A very pleasant early evening stroll around.

Surprisingly few birds:

Blackcap 

Chiffchaff 

Wren 

Carrion Crow 

Magpie

Butterflies:

Whites several - all looked to be Small White

Meadow Brown everywhere 

Ringlet a few quite worn 

Small Skipper

Small Tortoiseshell 2

Dragonflies - this is what I went to check

Emperor 3

Four-Spotted Chaser 15+ these were the dominant dragonflies around the pools. Each pool had at least two, many ovipositoring 

Common Darter only 2 seen

Black Darter 16+ These were the most numerous dragonflies, but many away from the pools. Unlike last year when I visited a little later, there were almost as many female as males (9 and 7)

Male Black Darter

Female Black Darter

The peat bogs were alive with insects. Every pool had it's own tribe of flies. I don't think these have a common name, but they should, they certainly are common. If you know please advise.

This comment from Barry Dyson (thanks) - The flies are one of the long-legged flies and as far as I can see are Poecilobothrus nobilitatus.

Those flies were big enough, but these were huge

A "Flesh" Fly

This looks like a Hoverfly, but I can't find it (MD)
Again if anyone knows please advise.