Wednesday 6 August 2014

Ruddy Darters and a Southern Hawker

Southern Hawker, Aeshna cyanea
Yesterday I met Linda at RSPB Pulborough Brooks to see a Black-winged Stilt. RSPB volunteers with a scope offered a view of the distant bird when it occasionally became visible. Five Avocets were more visible although equally distant. I was surprised by the absence of dragonflies and damselfies on a pond by the visitor centre. I saw a Southern Hawkers inside the reserve and there were many Red Darters at the dried out pond by the path on the heathland. Three handsome Highland Cattle grazed by the pond.
Avocets, Recurvirostra avosetta
Bird's-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus
bracket fungus
Common Pond Skater, Gerris lacustris
Common Pond Skater, Gerris lacustris
Fringed Water-lily, Nymphoides peltata
Common Shrew, Sorex araneus
Cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum
Emerald Damselfly, Lestes sponsa
Highland Cattle
Highland Cattle

Highland Cattle
Peacock, Inachis io on Teasel
Pulborough heathland
Ruddy Darters mating, Sympetrum sanguineum 
Ruddy Darter, Sympetrum sanguineum
Ruddy Darter, Sympetrum sanguineum
Ruddy Darters mating, Sympetrum sanguineum 
Small Copper, Lycaena phlaeas on Fleabane
White Water Lily, Nymphaea alba

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