An early walk around the fields and paddocks of Migrant Alley wasn't of much interest, the gaggle of GREYLAG GEESE were still on the paddocks, numbering 27 today, with them were 2 CANADA GEESE. A dozen or so SWALLOWS zipped over the sheep pasture and a pair of SWIFTS were seen high up. A look through the Greenhouse Grounds provided me with the first newly fledged DUNNOCK of the year - No. 8 for the 'Successfully bred' patch list. The male KESTREL was also seen, busy hunting.
As it warmed up, I made my way to the scrubby Woods to look for Odonata, seeing 3 BUZZARDS and a SPARROWHAWK over the Wet Woods on the way. I got a couple of hours looking for the dragons before the sunshine went, but I found at least 6 Beautiful Demoiselles, 1 Hairy Dragonfly, plus a real rarity for my patch - a Downy Emerald Dragonfly! Excellent !
Downy Emerald. Unfortunately it didn't allow close approach, but I got this distant shot and cropped it for ID purposes ;-)
The Beautiful Demoiselles proved just as flighty at first, but one eventually stayed put for a few images.
9 comments:
Very nice Warren. Will have to pop down soon by the looks of things.
There was a nice photo of Hadlow Tower in the Daily Telegraph today - up for sale at a million pounds.
Great to see your
Dragons are showing well Warren. Have to admit i'm not into Dragon mode yet. Only seen a couple of Large Red so far and Four Spots were seen by someone up here for the first time yesterday. We are 2/3 weeks behind you in the Dragon stakes.
Marc,
You'll need to be in your best spotting mode to find that Emerald!
Derek,
Interested then ;-)
John,
They are late here as well !
No, Warren, too much habitat around there, I prefer big skies and wide open views.
Nice Downy Emerald, never managed to get a shot while I was at Sissinghurst
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