MSQ again.....

Egg-laying female Brimstone.

Egg-laying female Brimstone.

With some nice and much warmer weather than yesterday,i headed again for this cracking reserve and enjoyed a great 5 hours seeing a good mix of birds and insects.Highlights from the avian world included some nice views of a singing male Garden Warbler,one of my favourite warbler species with their lovely liquid,rambling song,a couple of Kingfisher,single,singing male Cuckoo and 2 Barn Owl at their nest box.Several Common Buzzard were also seen overhead and a female Sparrowhawk was also seen,carrying prey and all the common migrants and resident breeding birds were all in fine voice.But today,it was insects which took centre stage at last,with 2 species of Damselfly being seen(See my Dragonfly blog) and 5 species of Butterfly which included 2 male Orange Tip,3 Peacock,5 female Brimstone watched egg-laying,4 Green-veined White and a single Speckled Wood.Other insects observed today included my first Alder Fly's of the year and a single Oiceoptoma thoracicum.A great day out again at this cracker of a reserve.