Latest Sightings

I drained my pond to clean it out for the summer and was using my hands to check for fish in the bucket I was using and caught a dragon fly nymph. On cleaning the rest of the pond I found a total of six.
When I finished I put all six back in the pond.

I visited the pools by the Victoria Bridge road near Bridge of Orchy. I collected 5 white-faced darter exuvia, saw several tenerals, and a couple of adults flying off to nearby woods.
Four-spotted chasers also emerging more generally

Best weather since Easter so a trip to Boldermere (Surrey) was in order. First thing I saw was a Hairy Dragonfly sitting on a bush, and three more were seen (or it was following me about). There were several recently emerged Four-spotted Chasers, two Broad-bodied Chasers ovipositing, and an immature Black-tailed Skimmer. Damselflies were well-represented with numbers of Azure, several Large Red and Red-eyed, plus singles of Common Blue and Blue-tailed. Altogether a good morning.

During my lunchbreak, whilst walking around a pond near the Brakes Bros offices, I saw lots of male and female blue-tailed damselflies flitting around. Beautiful creatures!

Group of 3 spent quite a while on flowering nettles this afternoon in high ham

At least 2 Downy Emerald at Buchan Park today at a pond and nearby open areas.

50+ recently-emerged White-legged Damselflies along the banks of the Brue at Baltonsborough

The Moat pond Thursley Common 10 Downy Emeralds hawking on edge of pond

Our visit to Thursley SSSI on this nice warm sunny day saw several flying Downy Emeralds, 4-Spotted Chasers, Azure and Large Red Damselflies. We also counted a large number of Downy Emerald Exuviae, a few 4-Spotted Chaser exuviae, 9 emerged/emerging Downy Emerald Dragonflies and a single emerging Brilliant Emerald Dragonfly.

Seen and photographed at Kingfishers bridge on Tuesday on nettles downwind of an old hedge at about 4pm.