Favoritos de margaridamaria

Mating calligrapher flies. Likely Toximerus marginatus. Many if these species eating pollen from my garden parsley.

You can see the Otter's tail as it’s going under the water.

Can it be? M. septendecula in my backyard where I have only documented septendecim and cassinii? Its call is a soft repeated chirp. It is small, like cassinii.