Bank holiday round up

Very quiet at the moth trap, probably for a variety of reasons. Firstly, temperature has dropped at night, secondly, I have been attending to it later than usual, after 7 a.m. And lastly, my companion the juvenile robin is still present. Now moulting into adult plumage it is still adept at taking moths from the sheet and in flight after release. Last photo shows the demise of an angleshades moth. No really noteworthy moths, a lesser swallow prominent shown here (photo 1 and 2) and a couple of angleshades and finally a broad bordered yellow underwing.
2 walks, yesterday around Hadham Hall gave views of the resident barn owl but little else. Brown hawker, migrant hawker and ruddy darter dragonflies were on the wing as well as red admirals, whites and a solitary comma.
In overcast/damp conditions I set off this morning for a westerly walk. Highlight were 3 nuthatches and a small party of linnets. A flock oflesser black backed gulls were loafing around, irritating corvids. One shown on a telegraph pole and then in flight. A poppy, newly opened, was worthy of a photo.
In the garden, records of coal tit, overhead buzzard and hobby were the best of a reasonable list that also included chiffchaff and willow warbler.
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