Hovering Hover-fly: Syrphus ribesii - Family: Syrphidae

Managed to capture one. Not easy and takes a lot of patience.
I believe this one is the Syrphus ribesii .It is difficult to see

Wonderful... how long did it take you?

Thank you.

Well.....................
Not telling You would think me daft (You probably think that any way)

I really can't say really as it would be any opportunity in between snapping birds etc and I might be out for 4-5 hour at a time. I was out for 5 hours on Monday walking about 7-8 miles up on the cliffs

It would have been daft if you had ended up with only the blue sky.You didnt and its not. Nice one Chocky.

Thank you .
I was quite pleased with it.

Annoyingly, yesterday I was in a bus shelter and one was hovering about (and it landed), and IF I had had my camera I could probably have caught it - it was glass-roofed so it hovered at the roof. I was gutted!!! Anyway, well done for getting it. I wouldn't say you were mad however long you took to do it, it's a good capture.

Thank you. :)