A warm September day at Hornsea

There were wide open sunny skies with a cold NW wind, but actually warm in sheltered spots at Kirkholme Point, the Eastermost area in Hornsea Mere. On arrival a group of wagtails by the water included a Yellow Wagtail. Around the point there were the usual assortment of Coots, Tufted Ducks, Canada and Greylag geese and Mute Swans. Three Grey Herons were dotted about the lake's shore, but despite scanning the viewable areas, no evidence of Great White Egrets, which I had hoped to see - although a distant Little Egret gave me first hope and then disappointment. It was a typical Sparrowhawk display day, with several individuals seen both displaying or being mobbed around the area.
  After a first slow walk around Kirkholme, we relocated to the church and Hall Garth Park. There were several stands of mature ivy in bloom, with its accompanying retinue of common wasps, droneflies and at some point a Hornet. Ladybirds were represented by at least seven 7 spot ladybirds, and many adult and larval harlequins

Yellow Wagtail with three Pied Wagtails.

One of three Grey Herons. Appeared to remain in the same spot for several hours.

Caddis Fly with some sort of pupae.

Green carabids with several wolf spiders Trochosa ruricola (I think) under a rock on the beach. Here is a close up 

Close up of the green carabids.

A distant Little Egret.

View of the woods on the west side of the mere.

Rooks mobbing Sparrowhawk.

A slumbering male Mute Swan in the sun.

Dead common shrew.

Steatoda bipunctata male.

Three of the many 7 spot ladybirds in the church cemetery.

Hornet.

Butterflies
Two Small Coppers and a Red Admiral were on the wing at Kirkholme; with a Speckled Wood and a Large White at Hall Garth Park.

Fresh Small Copper.

The second, very tattered, Small Copper.

Dragonflies
Back on the mere in the afternoon, it was warmer and  invertebrates had become more evident. The highlight being odonates, with three species present, Common Blue Damselfly (2 males), Common Darter (1 male) and at least 5 Migrant Hawkers, which included watching a complete mating sequence.

Migrant hawker males sunbathing together.

Close up of migrant hawker.

Migrant hawker.

Mating pair.

Common Darter.

Two Common Blue Damselflies.

Chorthippus brunneus.

A distant Whooper swan.

The only ringed Black-headed Gull, I took several photos at different angles and reconstructed the ring: Museum Stockholm, 64053, reported to EUring.