Odonata – Page 3 – Jill Orme Photography

24 May 2026

Sticky

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

This afternoon I decided to take another trip up to the River Severn at Uckinghall, hoping to find more Common Clubtails. According to posts I’ve been seeing on social media over the past couple of days, at least sixteen fresh … Continued

23 May 2026

Chunky

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

After a poor start. the Community Orchard at Cleeve Prior is now working hard to make up ground: today, as well as most of the species I found there on Thursday (minus the Scarce Chaser, who probably saw me coming … Continued

22 May 2026

Steps

by JDO | posted in: Damselflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

I decided to go to Croome today, on the grounds that it must surely be dragonfly city by now, but sadly it wasn’t. To be fair, there were many scores of damselflies around, but most were teneral and all were … Continued

21 May 2026

Hanging loose

by JDO | posted in: Damselflies, Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

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

20 May 2026

Scarce

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Warwickshire | 0

Well, I finally got my first Scarce Chaser of the year, but I had to go over the border into Warwickshire to find him. Interestingly, I’ve since seen a Facebook post written by the Warwickshire County Recorder, noting that the … Continued

17 May 2026

Mrs White-Legs

by JDO | posted in: Damselflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

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

13 May 2026

Blue

by JDO | posted in: Damselflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

Last week I posted an atypical blue-form female Azure Damselfly, and commented that even once she achieved fully mature colouration she wouldn’t look as blue as a male of the same species, because her coloured markings were less extensive. In … Continued

10 May 2026

Predatory

by JDO | posted in: Damselflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

There are now so many Banded Demoiselles at the old wharf at Cleeve Prior Mill that they’ve had to spread themselves out around the entire site. Some of the males are now fully mature and looking to breed, so they’ve … Continued

9 May 2026

Overshot

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Wiltshire | 0

There were so many Downy Emeralds and Four-spotted Chasers at Lower Moor and Sandpool today that I hardly knew where to point the camera. The Chasers were doing their mass emergence thing among the reeds at the corner of Mallard … Continued

8 May 2026

Prongles

by JDO | posted in: Damselflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

A couple of days ago I posted a close-up head shot of a Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens). Here’s an even closer one of her cousin, the Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo), but shot from a different angle so as to show … Continued

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