Blue skies!
I spotted this odd 7-spot ladybird from quite a distance. The left and right halves have strikingly different-sized markings.
I've previously shown Cassida rubiginosa - The Thistle Tortoise Beetle - as larva and pupa. This is the first adult I've found. The colour and size make it very difficult to spot. That purple/brown mark on the elytra looks remarkably like the ends of thistle leaves, too.
A newish hoverfly for the site. I have previously shown it, but without a full id. It's Eristalis arbustorum.
I really like this picture of a late Raspberry flower with attendant Melanostoma hoverfly.
I was searching for some leaves of Greater Reedmace - Typha latifolia - for a talk I'm giving next month.
The seedhead looked ideal for a photograph.