No time for a lengthy, flowery write-up.

So, in a bulleted format.

What I (and we) saw this weekend.

• I found a (n unexpected) little egret on my Saturday morning walk around the 'hood. At a newly-developed SANG lake. 
• Ben and I were treated to TWO hares running full tilt towards and then right past us on the outside mat of the golf driving range yesterday.
• Also yesterday we can report that the first of the 2 or 3yo swifts landed IN our swift tunnel at the house. 
• Ben found a June bug in the garden yesterday afternoon.
• I saw my first (garden) adult cinnabar moth yesterday and also my first (garden) cabbage white caterpillars.
• My wife and I watched stag beetles and hedgehogs emerge at dusk last night - alongside a stupendous aerobatic show from "our" swifts.
• Ben and I went for a superb bike ride through Swinley Forest today and watched little grebes (below), banded demoiselles, beautiful demoiselles, black-tailed skimmers, southern hawkers and broad-bodied chasers.
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• and photographed a woodlark below.

• We also heard a Dartford warbler and a peregrine (but saw neither) - we MUST return to hunt down that Dartford warbler!
• Finally, I think... the first of this year's hornet moths appeared in the garden today. The photos below are of a female sending out her pheromones at dusk - very rare - we normally see these emerge in the garden in the morning.
• All in all... what a wonderful wildlife and weather weekend.
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