Another Twitching Post...

...Another dip.

Dammmmit.


With the only good birds waaaay out of reach in places daft, and a proper First right over there, what was I to do on Saturday?

Norfolk Hawker?!?! What the actual?? But there it was so there I went.

Of course there it wasn't, whether it had done a Friday Night Special [unlikely] or had either been noshed by an Emperor [not implausible], been stolen by a BLEEEP with a net and a big pin [also sadly plausible], or just moved to a section of channel out of sight of the public [most plausible theory in my mind].

But the sun was shining, fluffy little clouds were being all Orb-ish, I had some good company in the fruitless search, and there weren't that many Horseflies..

There were also a few other insects to looks at. Some even posed.

Now, the question is; How many is too many?? :)

By far the most numerous;

Azure Damselfly

Damsels first, I think.

Blue-tailed Damselfly

Common Blue Damselfly

Large Red-eyed Damselfly

Nice pruinescence, there.
Those latter two were on the canal - yes I checked everywhere! - as was this

Small Red-eyed Damselfly

Up close and personal!?! This normally never happens... Then again, neither does finding the following on little channels on the Marsh;

Small Red-eyed Damsel

About 150m away from the above

Between the two

Small Red-eyeds are spreading out. :D

On to the bigger stuff,

The Emperor!

Slightly more worn Emperor

Lots of these about, marauding and munching anything that moved, like poor innocent butterflies..

Discarded Peacock.

Emperor grabbed it, ate its abdomen, 

then dropped the rest...

Southern Hawker.

Ovipositing female

Scarce Chaser

The rarest visible dragonfly.

I can't get enough of these wonderful insects!

Mature female

Appeared very brown in flight..!

Classic Black-tailed Skimmer

Common Darter

Ruddy Darter

A very confiding individual - for once!

Wind eased off a bit..

..Then picked up again

Yeah, that was a few photos.

I have more.

I'll put up another post, with non-dragony insects and flowers and so on. Maybe a fewww more dragons, too.

Yes, it was yet another dip in now a second year of suckyness - even getting to retrospective dips, as perfectly decent birds are genetically proved to be argentatus Herring Gulls - but all the posing dragons were good, and that Ruddy made the day.


And even better, as I type this..  RAAAAAIIIIIINNNN!!!!!


Ah, it's stopped. Well, 5 minutes is better than none. Hopefully with the schools breaking up, we'll have decent levels. I'm very worried for the butterflies.


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