A dull day for my day off this week, but still pretty warm at 21 degrees so I decided to go in search of a few odonata. Whelford Pools (Glos wildlife trust) and Lower Moor Farm ( Wilts wildlife trust)are good places to look for dragonflies and damselflies and boast a good number of different species.
I started off by visiting Whelford pools where common blue damselflies were everywhere on the vegetation. At a small pool as you enter the reserve I stopped on the wooden decked area . A female emperor dragonfly was egg laying in the water, and amongst the numerous damselflies I picked out common blue, red eyed and blue tailed.
Further on into the reserve I found black tailed skimmers and four spotted chasers. Butterflies included two speckled wood, a red admiral and a small tortoiseshell; I also found a scarlet tiger moth.
I drove on to the reserve at Lower Moor Farm, but as I parked it began to drizzle. However, it was still warm so I set off on a circular route which I knew. Again there were numerous blue damselflies and good numbers of dragonflies, but I was walking fairly quickly and saw no new species and returned to the car.
I should add that I have had up to a dozen common blue damselflies in the long grass in the wild area of the garden at home.
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