It was Banded Demoiselle Day at the river in Stratford – there were scores and scores of them fluttering around the reeds and rushes by Lucy’s Mill Bridge, and interestingly, given that I’ve had some immature Beautiful Demoiselles in the … Continued
The Community Orchard at Cleeve Prior has been a bit of a disappointment this season, Odonata-wise. Up till today all I’d managed to record there were a couple of Azure Damselflies and a single Banded Demoiselle, plus, just yesterday, three … Continued
Another day of highly variable weather – sun, wind, cloud, rain, sleet, hail, plagues of locusts*, etc. – settled just enough at lunch time to allow at least the possibility that a few insects might emerge from their roosts, so … Continued
