You can't beat a sunny day in October – and although it never got much warmer than 12ºC today, it convinced a host of hoverflies that summer was not yet over. Indeed it proved something of a red-letter day when a trip to Finlaystone Point, Renfrewshire, was rewarded with this cracking female Melangyna umbellatarum.
This is a new species for me and apparently the first record for Renfrewshire/Inverclyde VC, based on the new hoverfly atlas. It's a scarce species in the north and late in the season – so one I'm well chuffed with. Also present were good numbers of Eristalis tenax for the site, a late Syritta pipiens and five other Syrphids. Six Small Tortoiseshells and a Peacock were nice to see, as were three Greenshanks.
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