Maybe it’s the angle but that bill looks quite hefty?

Alpine crow?

The name is similar in Icelandic I think it means Thor’s hen. Red-necked phalarope is Odin’s hen!

With the UK’s combined sewage system (foul sewage and rainwater runoff in the same pipe) complete elimination of pollution is essentially impossible. Infrastructure improvements can reduce it but the system’s designed to bypass sewage treatment and discharge directly under heavy rainfall conditions

Thanks a lot that’s reassuring

I need my armour replacing too, do you know if they replace with the new more robust armour?

There are extra complications with hyphens and capitalisation though, e.g. in Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle

The landslip at Seaton in east Devon has huge number of marsh helleborines, I guess similar habitat. Also a few marsh fragrant orchids there

Did I? I didn’t realise if I did 😀

That’s two big “ifs”. No indication Avilist will follow US preferences (at the moment it’s taking IOC English names as default). And no indication that BOU will abandon local vernacular names. At present BOU uses IOC taxonomy but provides IOC English names as alternatives to vernacular names only.

Saw some there last year when the scarlet darters were there

BOU list has always included British English names. This also includes a different type of case where the local name makes no sense globally e.g. wren, blackbird, robin, eider etc see here bou.org.uk/wp-content/u... no reason to think that will change

Avilist hasn’t addressed English names properly yet so I wouldn’t worry too much about what they are currently

Next time!

Well…hate to say it but Manx and/or Balearic were still showing pretty regularly up until 1300 when I left. Mostly pretty distant, beyond the race

Yes Sphaerophoria female

Agree with Geoff, spotted leaves are pro spotted orchid ancestry

Followed almost immediately by a mating pair of hairy dragonflies (too distant to photograph). Also beautiful and banded demoiselles, blue-tailed and azure damsels, no wonder the hobbies are out in force at radipole at the moment!