Bluetail
13 May 2022

Bluetail

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A busy day today saw me over in Chipping Norton first thing for a haircut, then zooming through to Stratford (roof down to dry my still-damp hair, which is why I now look quite a lot like Struwwelpeter) to insert … Continued

Steamy
18 Jul 2021

Steamy

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Things are hotting up in our garden. Having populated the village with a good number of Large Red Damselflies from both our ponds over the past month or so, it was highly likely that some of them would return at … Continued

Frit
1 Jul 2021

Frit

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I went off to Trench Wood this afternoon in search of Emerald Damselflies and Common Darters, neither of which I found, but luckily there were plenty of other things out and about to keep me interested. The most spectacular was … Continued

Elegant
18 Jun 2019

Elegant

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This is an immature male Blue-tailed Damselfly, keeping up his strength at Kemerton Lake Reserve today. He and his lunch were my best captures of the session – I saw just a handful of damsels, and only one distant dragon, … Continued