Hoverfly

I am assuming that this is a hoverfly. It was walking on the surface of my homemade pond. I sunk a large plastic bowl (about 2ft in diameter) in the ground last autumn and, apart from adding some rocks so that small animals could crawl out, I more or less let it do its own thing. It’s an experiment. The ‘pond’ is now full of water fleas and I spotted a small snail in there this morning. The weed was a green colour, but it seems to have been bleached by the sun.

This is a quick blip as I am going to the Farne Islands tomorrow for a couple of days and I am busy getting ready.