White Admirals and Silver-washed Frits at the Fen: a swarm of Hornet Clearwings at The Poplars!

I'd arranged to meet Norman and Mike O'Hara (AKA 'Red') at Strumpshaw this morning, so stopped off en route at the Church Lane poplars to hang out a lure or two! Within minutes there were six Hornet Clearwings investigating - I'll never grow tired of this marvellous creatures. Some real Hornets turned up later!

At the Fen a couple of hours walking round added some decent insects: Silver-washed Fritillaries in the woods, lots of White Admirals, the first Southern and Brown Hawkers of the year and all the other expected odonata. Despite a good bash with the lures, none of last week's clearwings put in an appearance for Norman...