Another hot and sunny afternoon, so I wandered over to the lakes around Hadham Hall with cameras, binoculars, pots and insect net.
Plenty of common blue damselflies (1000's) as well as a few darters, black tailed skimmers and emperor dragonflies near or over the water. Plenty of photo opportunities.
At the main lake, a cormorant and several large but dead rainbow trout. Shall report this to the landowner tomorrow. Maybe the heat but may be something more sinister.
Green woodpeckers, linnets, a barn owl. goldfinches, swallows and house martins were all knocking about and the song of the yellowhammer was a constant companion.
On the butterfly front: gatekeeper, common blue, small and large white, peacock and meadow brown.
A lovely, peaceful couple of hours just sitting, watching and drinking a bottle of beer.
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| ruddy darter, as below |
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| black tailed skimmer |
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| cormorant drying its wings |
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| cormorant flypast |
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| silver y moth |
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| common blue damselfly |
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| mating common blues |
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| gatekeeper butterfly |
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| egg laying female |
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| emperor or female black tailed skimmer? |
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| peacock |
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| breeding black tailed skimmers. |
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