Great Tit

A dead great tit, Parus major. 

Found on the staircase of our flats. It must have got in through one of the open windows but then panicked and crashed itself into a closed windows while trying to get out again.

Three years ago a nuthatch died in the same way.

Photos taken on 2019-04-27 in Reading, UK.

Sciomyzid Fly

A male Sepedon sphegea (Diptera: Sciomyzidae).  Identified using the key of Rozkosny, 1984.

Specimen taken beside the Jubilee River, near Taplow, UK on 2019-03-30.