Sunday 4 September 2011

In search of Dragons

We went to Ventongimps NR for the first time on Friday and were not disappointed. It is a great place for Dragonflies etc, with a couple of great ponds and heathland. One of the ponds was created when a WW2 Bomber was discovered and excavated.













The Grayling were taken in the woods at Croft Pascoe, on The Lizard, as was the Wall Brown.

We have never seen them there before and they kept landing on us and the 'scope. In the first picture the wings are open slightly showing the rarely seen splash of colour.

17 comments:

  1. Terrific series (as always). Great southern hawker and golden-ringed dragonflies; would love to see those in person.

    cheers,
    Wilma

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  2. wat een variatie aan vlinders.
    heel mooi in beeld gebracht.
    groetjes Herman,

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  3. You captured some wonderful images!! I wish I knew more about them, like Wilma!! ~karen

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  4. Hi John & Sue Fantastic set of images hard to pick a favourite, seems like Ventongimps is worth a visit.

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  5. Another great series of images, love the first three and the others are great aswell.

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  6. Superb photos John of some fantastic differing species!
    J
    Follow me at HEDGELAND TALES

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  7. Love the Damselflies. Do you know, I just realized this is the first year in many, I never even saw one down along our creek. It has been so very hot and the creek totally dried up first time this bad in 30 years. Guess they went other places to do their thing~

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  8. Great images John, with a fantastic variety of subjects/colour.

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  9. Beautiful images. Lots of colors - and so sharp!

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  10. Love the copper/blue on the yellow flowers. These would make my day to find and photograph.

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  11. Love the macro shots of the bees.

    Top notch!

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  12. Hi!
    Lovely serie as allways!
    Greetings from Sweden
    /Ingemar

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  13. Fabulous, John!!! Those Wasp Spiders are just awesome, and I'm really envious of some of the species of dragonfly and butterfly that you are seeing in your neck of the woods.

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  14. A most fantastic series of images! You feature a great variety of winged insects. There is just something about dragonflies. So many beautiful close-up photographs to view. Looks like a marvelous place to observe nature. Outstanding post, as always!

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  15. ik heb genoten van je macro's
    wat een mooie foto's
    groetjes Herman,

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  16. Thank you one and all,for your great comments.
    John and Sue.

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