Spots

Spots?

Spots before the eyes? In a spot of bother?

Or a reference to something[s] with spots, mayhaps?


Or just; "Never mind the stupid title, get on with it!"

[[::Chorus of Python extras:: "GET ON WITH IT!"]]



A weekend spent still recovering from the plague [yes, again.. What is it this year?] and vexed by non-ideal weather [I thought bank holidays were supposed to be sunny now??] was still not a total fog-out. Well... away from the Patch, anyway.

Off-Patch, I raided Stover - braving the hordes - and actually got some sunshine before it rained. Shock.

Cue;

Large Red Damselfly

One or two about

Azure Damselfly

Present in numbers

Blue-tailed Damselfly

Four-spotted Chaser

Different individual

[Note abdominal markings]

Damselflies will usually settle somewhere. Dragonflies can be right so-and-so's, however. I have never even got to hit the shutter on a Hairy, for example. So, finding not one but two 4-Spots that would not only pose, but come back to the same perch you'd just set up on.. Ah, well.

You get things like this;

Sigh...

When my little sadist decides to work, it does do quite well.

Also on site were the odd Broad-bodied and indeed Hairy - who never came close to posing - and these little fellows;

First of the year

The last quackling swimming...

Yeah, only one left. :(

A Patch beset by such mistyfog that even seawatching wasn't working [bah], saw me resorting to desperate tactics..

Moff sp.

Hey, this looks familiar...

Not buried by the Bracken. Yet.

So the white Hawthorns are going pink, too?!?

Eventually, all those flowers led to a butterfly. With the power of my mind, I made it stay put long enough to zap,

Red Admiral

"Hey, at least I'm not a gull"

Be Seeing You...