Baking hot day today. Lots of dragonflies around today - I was able to spot 5 species:
Beautiful Demoiselle - The ones with dark wings that are common on the first few holes of Blue.
Azure Damselfly - Small blue Damselfly. Lots around the water on the Blue.
Black-tailed Skimmer - The males have a blue body and the females are brown. These are common in the area to the left of the 15th Red.
Emporer Dragonfly - Britain's bulkiest Dragonfly, with a blue and green body. On the pond to the left of the 4th Blue and in the rough on the Red.
Four-spotted Chaser - Brown Dragonfly with spots on its wings - lots of them around the pond on the 4th Blue.
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| Black-tailed Skimmer (male) Orthetrum cancellatum [15th Red] |
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Black-tailed Skimmer (female) Orthetrum cancellatum [15th Red]
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| Emperor Dragonfly Anax imperator [15th Red] |
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Four spotted Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata [4th Blue]
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| Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella [1st Blue] |
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| Beautiful Demoiselle (male) Calopteryx virgo [1st Blue]
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I visited the water a couple of times on the first few holes of the Blue, allowing me to spot some new flowers for the year:
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| White Waterlily Nymphaea alba [1st Blue] |
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| Water Forget-me-not Myosotit scorpioides [1st Blue] |
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| Celery-leaved Buttercup Ranunculus sceleratus [1st Blue] |
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| Brooklime Veronica Beccabunga [4th Blue] |
A group of baby warblers, this time Blackcaps - to the left of the 13th Red. Here is one of them..
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| Blackcap [13th Red] |
There were a couple of Kestrels hunting over the 9th Blue.
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| Kestrel [9th Blue] |
On the 15th Red was another black and crimson day-flying moth, the Cinnabar.
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| Cinnabar Tyria Jacobaeae [15th Red] |
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