Stealth
One of R’s oldest friends came to call today (that’s to say, they’ve known each other since school, rather than that he’s in any sense geriatric), so I left them to their boy talk and went off to Stratford to … Continued
Blue Chaser, Take Two
After spending the morning sorting out financial stuff at my desk I decided it was time to tackle the small mountain of errands I’d amassed, so I devised a round-Warwickshire tour that would encompass them all. Somehow it also managed … Continued
Blue Chaser
Wait – what? Blue, you say? But… he’s red…? Well, yes, at the moment he’s red – or reddish, at any rate. But as he matures his thorax will darken through brown to black, his abdomen will acquire a coating … Continued
Guard duty
Male Four-spotted Chasers don’t hover much – they tend to spend their time alternately chasing about after females and rivals, and perching on favoured stems or leaves from which they can keep watch for females or rivals entering their territory. … Continued
Semi-mature
On my way along the Roman Road at lunch time, heading for the Heart of England Forest at Barton, I experienced another low-level fly-over by the Red Arrows. All along the road people were parking their cars wherever they could … Continued
Dragonating
It’s always amused me when hoverfly recorders use the word “hoverating” to describe going out and rummaging about in search of hoverflies, and I’m sure they won’t mind me adapting the term to describe the two hours I spent on … Continued
