Believing the forecast and the way it was all sunny and stuff here, I went up on't Moor this afternoon looking for Scarce Blue-tailed Damselflies [again]. Needless to say, it wasn't quite so clement up there - strongish wind, lots of cloud and occasional drizzle made things seem pretty bleak [from a dragonfly perspective, anyway]. It did eventually sun up a bit, but the single odonata I saw was a male Beautiful Demoiselle.
S B-t 2 : Me 0
There were Wheatears, though they made themselves fairly scarce [no pun intended], and slightly-less-showy-than-yesterday Yellowhammers, and an absence of Horseflies [::Gives thanks::] so I can't complain too much.
Right, to bed. I have a feeling I might try something silly tomorrow - like a futile quest* up to zumerzet to look for Variable Damselfly amid the vast expanse of the Levels... [more Little Bitterns would be a purely accidental side-effect ;) ]
[[*Why futile? They look very much like Common Blue and Azure Damselflies - the two commonest ones! Not so much needle in haystack, as needle in needlestack.....]]
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