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26 Aug 2022

Friday hawker

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Warwickshire | 0

R had an errand to run in Stratford today, so I tagged along and got some river time in while he was busy. I managed a few fairly good flight shots of both Brown and Migrant Hawkers, but this is … Continued

25 Aug 2022

Target

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Wales | 0

Sometimes you only get one shot at your target species, and sometimes that’s enough. I was on a mission and on a schedule as I yomped along the towpath at Forest Farm this afternoon – trying to get down to … Continued

12 Aug 2022

Breeding residents

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

Mad dogs, and Englishwomen with an Odonata obsession, and the tolerant husbands of said Englishwomen who suspect that they need someone to lug their photographic gear, go out in the midday sun. R and I managed to catch up on … Continued

7 Jun 2022

Dapper

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

It’s three years since I last managed a photo of a Hairy Dragonfly that wasn’t a blurry distant flight shot, so it was well past time that I managed another. The previous occasion was down in Wiltshire, where I photographed … Continued

20 Sep 2021

Distant

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Wales | 0

“You should have been here this morning,” I was told. “The place was teeming with them.” This is, of course, the story of a nature photographer’s life: another woman I met today told me that she’d missed a kingfisher at … Continued

6 Sep 2021

Jade-eyed dragon

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Wales | 0

R and I went to Cardiff, where it was blisteringly hot, but where (after two mornings at day nursery last week) poor Baby B is suffering from another cold. As will Grandma J be very shortly, no doubt, because as … Continued

19 Aug 2021

Hangin’

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

My apologies for the background here, but I only photograph the dragons – I don’t get to tell them where to go and stand. I can’t decide whether it reminds me more of a Habitat fabric design, c.1980, or the … Continued

17 Aug 2021

Stripes

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Wales | 0

To Cardiff again today, where everyone in the household is as diseased as we are, though G seems to be fighting off the plague more successfully than the rest of us. This morning Baby B was quite affronted by our … Continued

22 Jul 2021

BTS

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Warwickshire | 0

As she’s known in the Biz. I’ve seen more female Black-tailed Skimmers in the past month than in the whole of the previous three years put together. Usually, while the blue and black males are highly visible, whizzing around over … Continued

15 Jul 2021

Moody

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Flies, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

“I can’t post that one,” I said. “People will think I’ve gone mad!” “I like it,” said R. “It’s…. moody.” It was a dark and murky morning, but after lunch the light started to lift, and in the middle of … Continued

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