Quad
After a moderately successful visit to Lower Moor in Wiltshire last Monday, I thought I’d wait a few days to let the dragons really get going before making another trip down the Fosse. It turns out though that I needn’t … Continued
Demoiselle delight
“Yesss!!!” I hissed, when I first spotted him. “You gorgeous creature! Come to me, my Precioussss…” Luckily, there were no other humans in the fishermen’s car park at Cleeve Prior Mill at the time, or I’d likely have got some … 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
First of the year
Oh my days – finally! Of course, I knew that the Odonata season would start here sooner of later, but my socials have been filling for three weeks or so now with images of damsels (various), Chasers (various), Banded and … Continued
Dilapidation
The weather improved again today, so R and I decided to go to Stratford for lunch. While he improved his step count by walking the long way round, I detoured over to the reed beds by Lucy’s Mill Bridge in … Continued
Lucky for some
Firstly, thanks to everyone who said nice things about the news I shared yesterday: I very much appreciate your generosity and all-round niceness! After all that excitement I was keen to get back to normal invertebrate service today, but what … Continued
