This is a very common hoverfly - Episyrphus balteatus. It was hovering around a Buddleia leaf and then landed on it and kept flicking its abdomen up and down. Egg-laying perhaps?
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Pensby is a small suburb on The Wirral, a peninsula between the rivers Mersey and Dee in the county of Cheshire, just south-west of Liverpool.
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