And here's another unknown fly





It did look a little bit strange, because it looks like it’s wearing one of those wrestling masks they sometimes use in south America Mexico for example 😂
I think this Bee, captured in flight at Eltham Palace gardens last week, is a Large Meadow Mining Bee (Adrena labialis), but I'm not 100% certain. Can anyone confirm, or correct my ID if I'm wrong?


Did anyone else at the Willows Birds of Prey field trip yesterday clock the name of this raptor? We were told, and I think the word 'grey' may have appeared somewhere in the common name, but I can't recall the rest of the name.
My pleasure Barrie, because of the grey frontage of the feathers it was a little bit difficult to get a good result and with a lot of these birds a lot of them have a very similar colour frontage, however we got there in the end 😀.
It nests like most solitary bees or wasp in this case, at one stage I lost sight of it and then I noticed it crawling out of the top of a bamboo pole. I then found out that they live in small holes in wood or in places like bug hotels. Also I knew it was Mexican ( here comes a Peter joke) because it had a sombrero on its head. Sorry.