The food chain
The Boy Wonder has come to stay with us for the weekend, and as we often do, we effected the handover from his mother in the car park at Slimbridge. “It’s two nights, right?” he said, clearly anxious that there … Continued
Successful
R and I had some shopping to do in Stratford this morning, in advance of a weekend visit from the Boy Wonder. I took the opportunity for a quick Odonata census at Lucy’s Mill, and found that while the Banded … Continued
Red-veined Darter
A second trip to the Knighton Reserve this morning got me the Red-veined Darter I failed to find yesterday, and also a third, unexpected “lifer”, in the shape of the Keeled Skimmer I’ve added as an extra. This took my … Continued
Scarlet Darter
I decided yesterday, on a sudden whim, to take a trip to Dorset in search of a couple of rare dragonfly species – but while he encouraged me to go, R felt (and I have to say, I agreed) that … Continued
Blue on blue
The giddy social round continues. This afternoon L and H made the trek from their respective cities to check up on their aged parents and each other, and we had a great afternoon sharing news, views, gossip, and laughter. I … Continued
Gatekeeping
This afternoon we had a short visit from the Family B, who (quite coincidentally) were also in Nottinghamshire yesterday, and called in on us to break their journey home to Wales and allow the boys to run off some steam. … Continued
Migrant vs Southern
Well, this is a surprise. After all the gadding about of the last couple of weeks, I decided to give the dragons a rest today, and stay home to work on my editing and recording backlogs. After several hours of … Continued
Hubris: meet Nemesis
Feeling like the Great Odonata Hunter after the various successes of yesterday, I headed off down to Wiltshire this morning in search of a Lesser Emperor. Five hours and two and a half circuits of Lower Moor later, and after … Continued