Today at Wat Tyler there were dragonflies abound at the one pond I managed to visit in my lunch break. The first I noticed was this male broad bodied chaser
On the water surface a number of azure damselflies in tandem were egg laying in the weed that was at the surface.
Soon after I spotted the Broad bodied chaser chasing (they are well named) another chaser shaped dragonfly that was browner in colour. When it landed it was, as I suspected, a four-spotted chaser.
I glimpsed a yellow dragonfly from some long grass chasing the above and later another was flushed nearby which turned out to be teneral black tailed skimmer. The day was topped off by a visit by a hairy dragonfly at a pond where I fished out what I’m fairly sure is an emerald and an scarce emerald damselfly nymphs. Photos of them later hopefully.
