Summary
The sun was out and the morning was warm. It had rained overnight and there were several puddles on the terrace. I noticed that there were a number of hover flies sipping nectar from a nearby creeper.
They were flying really impressively, as if on rails, hovering in front of the plant, flying backwards and then forwards all at exactly the same altitude.See the full content of this document
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Country Diary
But all was not happy in the hover fly world and abruptly two of these flies were scrapping in the air, tumbling downwards, s...
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