After a wonderful sunrise and early light this morning the sky clouded over and it, yet again, turned cool. In the afternoon, however, the sky cleared, the sun came out and it was warm! An ideal opportunity, then, to revisit my ponds by Buck Beck to see if the broad bodies were performing. When I arrived at the ponds it was still warm and sunny and at least 6 males were patrolling the pond with about 3 females so competition was fierce. The males were either dueling with each other or vying for mating rights with the females. The activity was frenetic and I thought that there was no chance of photographs. As the afternoon wore on, however, the males began to perch up for brief intervals and with patience it was possible to secure photographs. What a wonderful wildlife spectacle. There a reasonable number of butterflies on the wing as well, and I managed to photograph common blue, large skipper, small heath and a mother shipton's moth. The large number of tadpoles in the pond are now sprouting legs.
Dragonfly species:
- Broad Bodied
- Azure Damselflies
Birds:
- Whitethroat
- Blackbird
- Chiffchaff
- Wood Pigeon
- Magpie
- Kingfisher (repoted in the beck)
Butterflies/Moths:
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