patio pond – Jill Orme Photography

10 Jun 2024

Brown-eyed boy

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

My favourite photo of the day is this close-up portrait of an immature male Large Red Damselfly, which I took at my patio pond this morning. His wings had been damaged on emergence, and for a while I feared that … Continued

20 May 2024

Expansive

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

This female isn’t the first Large Red Damselfly to emerge from our ponds this season, but she’s the first I’ve caught in the act. By the time I saw her she’d reached the stage of rocking slightly back and forth, … Continued

11 May 2024

Emergent

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

When I first saw this emergent female Large Red Damselfly this morning I was terribly worried about her, because the stem she’d chosen for support was in contact with the wooden surround of the patio pond – and worse still, … Continued

23 Apr 2024

First

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

I went to Trench Wood this afternoon, for the first time this year – not really expecting to find very much, but on the remote off chance that it might be teeming with inverts. It wasn’t, but I did spot … Continued

21 Jun 2023

Gaze

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

The strangely belated Large Red Damselfly emergence in our garden carried on today: one emerged from the patio pond, and six from the wildlife pond. This, though, is one of yesterday’s immatures – the last of three that came out … Continued

16 Jun 2023

Clot

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

The synchronised emergence of Large Red Damselflies from our ponds that conspicuously didn’t happen six weeks ago when we were hoping and looking for it, seems to be happening now. Today we had four emerge from the wildlife pond, and … Continued

9 Aug 2022

Drop-in

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

Right place, right time. We now seem to have lost all the female Common Darters we had here last week, but today the small pond received a visit from this mature male, and I happened to walk up the garden … Continued

18 May 2022

Surprise!

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

We’ve lived in this house for over twenty years now, during which time I’ve walked most of the field pathways around the village, with and without dogs, and observed the local wildlife going about its business. During the last few … Continued

8 May 2022

Eclosure

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

Had I managed to update the images on the front page of my web site today without a two-hour battle with WordPress (which is, as you may know, the invention of the devil), I’d have been out in the garden … Continued

4 Jul 2021

Sunday Marmalade

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, Hoverflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I don’t generally start the day with sugar, but I thought What the heck – it is Sunday, after all, so I had toast and home-made Seville orange marmalade for breakfast. It is, of course, entirely coincidental that when I … Continued

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