Learn about flies

This tiny fly from the recent FSC DIptera families course looks like a candidate for Forcipomyia bipunctata, based purely on overall appearance. Are there any similar species?

Is this Egle rhinotmeta please? Herts wet woodland.

Hi All. I've just added Scathophagidae to my Flickr site. The link is here: 

This photo was sent to me recently and appears to be Mydaea sp insofar as the bulge in the mediastinal vein is present.

Hi all. I have been photographing flies in my North Devon Garden for two years now and there are a  lot more than I thought there were ! Even the ones I thought were straight forward eg Bluebottles and Greenbottles are more varied that I thought. So I am a beginner but I am slowly starting to learn more about them but do rely on trying to ID from photos which does make it extra hard but still interesting. I I record any I can ID and have a lot of help from the Hoverflies and Diptera facebook pages with this .

This is the male beaten from the same shrub as the three females in my previous post. No sign of any brown spot in the wings. I have tentatively keyed this out as S. pumilus?

Once again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I found three females of a Dolichopodid beating a very dense shrub in a garden in North Wiltshire on 21 December. They all have a faint but definite brown spot in the forewing, unfortunately this does not show up very well in my photo! Using the out of print handbook available on the RES website, they key quite confidently to Syntormon macula. There was also a male Syntormon but this lacks the brown spot.

is it possible to confirm from my photo? Thanks in advance for any help.