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
Howard Vaughan, Information Officer