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.

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17 comments:

  1. Wilma4 September 2011 at 16:58

    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. de schoonheid van de natuur4 September 2011 at 17:09

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

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  3. KaHolly4 September 2011 at 17:20

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

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  4. Bob Bushell4 September 2011 at 18:17

    Superb.

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  5. Monts4 September 2011 at 18:54

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

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  6. Unknown4 September 2011 at 19:24

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

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  7. John4 September 2011 at 20:55

    Superb photos John of some fantastic differing species!
    J
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  8. Mary Howell Cromer4 September 2011 at 23:10

    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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  9. Bobbster4 September 2011 at 23:45

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

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  10. Montanagirl5 September 2011 at 02:41

    Beautiful images. Lots of colors - and so sharp!

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  11. Randy Emmitt5 September 2011 at 03:11

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

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  12. Dan5 September 2011 at 08:29

    Love the macro shots of the bees.

    Top notch!

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  13. Ingemar Pettersson5 September 2011 at 09:12

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

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  14. Richard Pegler5 September 2011 at 10:30

    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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  15. Julie G.5 September 2011 at 13:42

    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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  16. de schoonheid van de natuur7 September 2011 at 18:31

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

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  17. JRandSue9 September 2011 at 20:21

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

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