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Southern migrant hawker dragonfly at Wat Tyler Country Park

Essex, insect, odonata, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 9, 20121 Comment

In 2010 a number of Southern migrant hawker dragonflies (Aeshna affinis) turned up at Hadleigh Country Park, a few miles East of Wat Tyler CP. They also turned up at Vange Wick (not Vange Marsh) just to the south of Wat Tyler CP, so I’ve been hoping they would turn up here. Last year, I…

Crockford Bridge: Southern damselfly and golden ringed dragonfly

insect, New forest, odonataBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 8, 2012Leave a comment

On Sunday I visited Crockford Bridge, a stream well known for its dragon and damselflies. My target species was the southern damselfly, one of the rarest species in the UK and one I had never seen. It didn’t take me long to find one! Here is a pic of my first ever southern damselfly! They…

Ruddy darter, wolf spider with eggs and a common lizard

Essex, insect, odonata, Reptile, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 2, 20121 Comment

A few photo from Wat Tyler CP during the recent sunny spell. First up a ruddy darter. This wolf spider was warming her egg cocoon in the sun. And this lizard posed for a photo… …before playing peak-a-boo.

A Water stick insect Ranartra linearis

Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, heteroptera, insect, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 1, 2012Leave a comment

I’m a bit of a pond dipper, as some regular readers will have worked out, but there is one species that has always eluded me, the water stick insect. This year I saw a preserved specimen and a captive one (which I never managed to photograph), but never before had I seen a live wild…

Emperor dragonfly egg laying

Essex, insect, odonata, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 30, 20122 Comments

More recent photos from Wat Tyler Country Park. This time a female emperor dragonfly which was laying its eggs on some fallen reeds. This angle, although a bit top down, shows the tip of the abdomen in action below the surface. And I tried an in the environment shot too.

Scarce emerald damselfly Lestes dryas

Essex, insect, odonata, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 29, 2012Leave a comment

The rubbish weather so far this summer has stopped me getting much in the way of macro shots at all, let alone of the local speciality, the scarce emerald damselfly. However the improved weather last week did let me get the following.

Heath fritillary butterfly

butterflies, insect, KentBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 15, 20121 Comment

After visiting Elmley Marshes last Saturday, we popped over to East Blean Woods, a Kent Wildlife Trust Reserve which is one of the best best sites for the rare heath fritillary butterfly.  It took a while to find one as the sun had disappeared behind some thick cloud.  But we looked around a promising spot…

British dragonfly and damselfly emergence and flight times

Freshwater invertebrates, insect, odonataBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 14, 20123 Comments

A few years ago on my old blog I posted a diagram to show the emergence and flight times of all the British odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) and a seemed to be quite popular. Since then a number of new species have become established in Britain, or are at least well on their way to…

Brown hare and quail at Elmley Marshes

bird, butterflies, butterflies, Gamebird, insect, Kent, mammalBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 11, 2012Leave a comment

On Saturday morning I headed reasonably early to Elmley Marshes. The drive in was pretty quiet except for a few yellow wagtails until I reached an area with a field that had much shorter vegetation. Here were a number of hares, which wherereachable with my Pentax 300mm and 1.7x convertor combo. One decided to have…

Backswimmer

Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, heteroptera, insect, wat tyler cp, water boatmanBy Neil-UKWildlifeJune 30, 2012Leave a comment

Here’s a slightly different pond creature shot, with a white background.  The backswimmer is also a bit different as its Notonecta maculata, rather than the usual N. glauca.  

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