BRENEY COMMON & BISSOE VALLEY.

WE HAVE BEEN OUT A COUPLE OF TIMES OVER 

THE WEEKEND, MOSTLY TO BISSOE VALLEY BUT 

ALSO TO BRENEY COMMON FOR BLACK DARTER.

THIS USE TO BE THE MOST RELIABLE SPOT FOR 

THEM BUT THEY ARE NOW FEW AND FAR BETWEEN 

SINCE ALL THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE THERE. 

WE ONLY FOUND 1 AFTER SEVERAL HOURS 

OF SEARCHING, SUCH A SHAME.

BLACK DARTER

BLACK DARTER

COMMON DARTER

COMMON DARTER

COMMON DARTER

COMMON DARTER

COMMON HAWKER

COMMON HAWKER

GOLDEN-RINGED

GOLDEN-RINGED

KEELED SKIMMER

MIGRANT HAWKER

MIGRANT HAWKER

MIGRANT HAWKER

SOUTHERN HAWKER

SOUTHERN HAWKER

 

CATCHING UP .

I HAVE BEEN OUT AND ABOUT LOCALLY WITH THE 

SMALL CAMERA THIS WEEK, LOTS OF INSECTS 

AROUND AND OF COURSE BUTTERFLIES.

THIS BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE HAD JUST CAUGHT A MAYFLY.

BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE

BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE

BEES

BEES

BRIMSTONE

BRIMSTONE

COMMON BLUE

COMMON BLUE

LIZARD sp.

MOTH sp.

PAINTED LADY

PEACOCK

SILVER Y

SMALL COPPER

SMALL TORTOISESHELL

MIGRANT HAWKER, female

MIGRANT HAWKER, male

SOUTHERN HAWKER

SMALL RED-EYED DAMSELFLY

SMALL RED-EYED DAMSELFLY

 WE WERE IN BRISTOL LAST WEEK-END VISITING FAMILY SO 

WE STOPPED AT HAMWALL NR, INITIALLY FOR BROWN HAWKER

 WHICH WE SAW BUT THEY NEVER SETTLED FOR A PHOTO. 

WE DID GET THESE SMALL RED-EYED AS A CONSOLATION.

BISSOE VALLEY

We spent a lovely couple of hours at Bissoe Valley on Sunday. 

This Golden-Ringed Dragonfly dropped into a pond and struggled desperately to get out

 but its wings were covered in algae. John managed to scoop it out with the tripod and

 after cleaning off what we could, we hung it out of site still flapping like mad. 

When we checked later, it had gone so we will never know if it 

managed to clean itself up and fly off or if it got eaten.

MIGRANT HAWKER

SOUTHERN HAWKER

CATCHING UP.

These were taken over the last couple of days, mostly by Sue. 

Give it a few more weeks and most of these will be finished. 

What a shame. 

CLOUDED YELLOW

COMMON BLUE

COMMON DARTER

EMERALD DAMSELFLY

GOLDEN-RINGED DRAGONFLY

GOLDEN-RINGED DRAGONFLY

GOLDEN-RINGED DRAGONFLY

Never seen anything like this before, three together.

LARGE WHITE

SMALL COPPER

MIGRANT HAWKER

SOUTHERN HAWKER

SOUTHERN HAWKER

This Hawker is half-way through eating a fly, you can still see its head.

The poor thing was still struggling.

Not sure about this Butterfly. I would like it to be a Brown Argus 

but I suspect it is a very brown Common Blue female.