Emerald
Mature Downy Emeralds are bronzy-green, with vivid green eyes, but it’s a long time since I last saw one – I usually go looking for them as they emerge, when they’re pinkish with buff-coloured eyes, and by this time in … Continued
This morning I took my first trip in nearly a year to the Lower Moor nature reserve in Wiltshire, in search of Odonata. I’d barely walked into the the first enclosure when I accidentally disturbed a fresh female Red-eyed Damselfly, … Continued
I got up at oh-no-surely-not-hundred hours this morning, to drive to Wiltshire for a wildlife photography workshop on Salisbury Plain. This was set up by the RPS Nature Group, and was run by Robert Harvey, ably assisted by Alan Benson. … Continued
Time was when Lower Moor at Oaksey in Wiltshire was one of my my go-to summer places, because of the plethora of Odonata I could confidently expect it to provide. I didn’t visit during 2020 because of Covid, and then … Continued
I made a return trip to Lower Moor today in search of dragons, but dragons continue to be in short supply there, so it’s lucky that the entire reserve was seething with damselflies, or I’d have come home with nothing … Continued