Another Soldier Fly

A female Oxycera morissii (Diptera: Stratiomyidae).

Specimen taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2016-07-10.

Soldier Fly

A female Stratiomys potamida (Diptera: Stratiomyidae).

Specimen taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK on 2016-07-10.

Deer Fly

A female deer fly, Chrysops relictus (Diptera: Tabanidae).

 

The 2-lobed black marking on the 2nd abdominal segment is characteristic of this species.

Specimen taken in the woodland surrounding Kings Meadow Tescos in Reading, UK, on 2016-06-26.

Nuthatch

A dead nuthatch (Sitta europaea).

Found on the stairs of our block of flats on 2016-05-18.  It must have come in through the window and not been able to find its way out again.  Last year I saw them quite frequently in the trees around our flats.  This is the first I have seen this year.

How to Reverse the Page Order in a PDF File

If someone scans the pages of a document in the wrong order then the resulting PDF file will have its pages in reverse order. On Linux this is very easy to fix. First install pdftk (if necessary):

  sudo apt-get install pdftk

Then enter:

  pdftk file1.pdf cat end-1 output file2.pdf

where file1.pdf is the name of your input file and file2.pdf the name of the ouput file.

(Thanks to emilien at Stack Overflow)