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Might be supercommon in your neck-of-the-woods Andre, on the little collection of rocks in the middle of the North Sea / Atlantic where I live they are a migrant species, and last year I saw only about 12 Syrphus sp. compared with hundreds the previous year. We had some long spells of good weather here compared with the UK Mainland where i presume these breed, so no reason for them not to be active and spotted. We might get some from Norway too as it is less than a couple of hundred miles away. So I assume there must have been some problem or other that cut the numbers. If so then a couple of bad years breeding or whatever for a supercommon species, then you too might be glad to catch one on camera.

Roger