On Tuesday I visited one of my favourite sites, Crockford Stream. The site is amazing for dragonflies and damselflies, including golden ringed dragonflies.
The site is also a good one for the rare southern damselfly. It was good to see a few tandem pairs of these great little blue damselflies.
The keeled skimmers were in good numbers (as they were on nearly every iste I visited in the New Forest!)
In the afternoon I popped over to Hatchet pond to try and track down some scarce blue tailed damselflies. And I found this…
A ‘common’ blue tailed damel! Plenty of them too, but no scarce to be seen.
I got my first common darter of the year, first of many no doubt.
And my first small reds too.
More keeled skimmers, including this tandem pair.
and this common blue posed nicely on the bog asphodel.
We couldn’t find the Scarce Blue-tails at Hatchets Pond but, a few days later, we managed to find three males at Latchmoor Brook.