Fungusworthy II : Pt. 2, Moving Targets

In which I do not post fungi - I'm sure you've had quite enough of them - and instead show you what else was inattentive enough to get in the way of my camera. Don't fear, this one is much shorter.


It's not that bad, though not quite as in focus as the fungi [usually] are.

Anyways,

Black Darter

[over mature female]

This well inside the plantation. I saw a couple of males buzzing about the more expected boggy open moorland, but did not expect to find most of them in dry well-tree'd areas away from any water, let alone boggy pools?!?

Quieter paths alive with Garden Spiders

And others!

[Pole for scale]

Common Darter

Teneral Black Darter

[despite looking very Common, the big vulvar scale means it's Black]

Teneral Common Darter

[much smaller vulvar scale]

Mature female

Striking a pose
[same individual]

Southern Hawker!

This down by the reservoir, where you'd expect it. Well, sort of. Fernworthy doesn't strike as the most dragonfly-friendly body of water; it dries down alarmingly, has bugger all underwater vegetation in the shallows, and is probably blimmin' cold! [But hey, maybe he just wandered by and thought 'what the what'..??]

Enough arthropods!

Crossbills were vocally present

Juveniles!

These two were the best showers

Extra super streaky!

:D

Lots of Mipits still on the open Moor

Heather Pipit? lol

Reed Bunting

[or is it a Heather Bunting, too? lol]

Striking the Issy pose,

Northern Wheatear

Snuck up on this Wheatear :)

[and snuck off, too]

Scenery;

Looking SW over Statt's Bridge

Took a small detour for this, as I've been meaning to post a shot of this view for years and I finally had scenic skies [and nobody in the way].
Sousson's on the left, Ryder's massif on the horizon. This is the Postbridge-Mor'n'ampster road, so busy by Dartmoor standards. Brave ponies ambush grockles at the bridge [which is narrow enough to make them nervous] in the hope of sarnies.. :/

Yeah, it's a desert...

Lifeless. Single species. No inverts or anything...

[Don't look up at what nests here, either..]

Ok, enough sarcasm. [Yes, I should have taken a few closeups of all the little jobs underfoot, but that would require malice of forethought, and I'm just in a mood today..]

Berries!

And; someone's been getting artistic with the Bracken roller!

View from the hide

I know an inconspicuous hide is a good thing, but I suspect a little action may be needed...!

The water held 5 Tufted Duck, a wonderfully pale-bellied Cormorant, and very little else. But it's early and the water is a bit high [for waders, not that there'd be any to be seen with all the people on the foreshore], and well, it's always more Hope For than Check For there.

Assycombe Row

Given a recent haircut

Deer slots

[with stick strap]

Those showed up between me arriving and leaving. Oh, the LBD would have been excited!


Right, that's it.


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