Birds and a bee

In St Andrews Park today there was an Early Mining Bee and a hoverfly which I think might be a Platycheirus species. Another of the latter was along the railway path in Montpelier. Not much else in the park apart from a Coal Tit and singing Mistle Thrush.

Early Mining Bee

Possible Platycheirus sp.

At the station it was interesting to see two male Chaffinches fighting it out - I never think of Chaffinches as aggressively territorial but I guess they must be. A Coal Tit was on the feeders nearby.

A Blackcap was singing at Fairlawn Road, also a Robin, single Long-tailed Tit and Dunnock there.