Common Darters
Small Copper
A few Dragonflys and Damselflies seen flying around at Top Hill Low yesterday despite quite windy conditions. A number of Darters were flying as well as Southern Hawker around a pond which did not settle.
In the wood these two Ruddy Darters landed fairly close to me. I also saw one or two 'blue' Damselflies.
There was good numbers of butterfly species seen Common Blue, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Peacock, Red Admiral, Wall and Small Copper.
4 comments:
Nice image of the Small Copper Mike, I have not seen any this year. I particularly want to get one of the female with the blue on the wings.
as usual great photos i may have to back to 'stalag' tophill!!
Lovely Small Copper Mike, they seem to have been in short supply this year. Roy- come to Scarborough, when we have them, the blue spotted variety are the most common on the castle headlands.
Thanks for the comments.
My field card only shows a male Small Copper so your post was interesting Roy.
You've set a new challenge, they are very flighty, on a web page I viewed there was spaces for pictures of the underside, I am not surprised.
Mike
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