Copperback
It was a mad, all-hands-to-the-pump scramble this morning, to get the holiday house cleared and tidied before our check-out time of 10am. We managed it, more or less, and by 10.30 I was back round at Lower Moor. My excuses … 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
Young Red Eyes
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
Downy Emerald
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
Circle of life
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