5th June.
The morning of the 5th we meet the warden of a Norfolk reserve and were taken to an area that had probably been colonised by Scarce Blue-tailed Damselflies in the last few years, possibly from Europe rather than from the UK. The weather was not great, a bit overcast but windy. We did find a few thankfully at what was a very interesting site.
Azure Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Hairy Dragonfly
Keeled Skimmer
Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly
As we had a spare couple of hours before the gathering at the care home, we made a visit to the new scrape that had been made just east of Wells-next-to-sea, which seem to have been readily adopted 40 or so Avocets there with young, Lapwings, Redshank and even feeding Spoonbills. A single Greenshank was present, along with Marsh Harrier and Red Kite passing over bringing a pretty aggressive response mainly from the Avocets.
Spoonbill
Little Egret
Avocet, adult above and juvenile below
6th June.
As it was a sunnier and less windy day we made a repeat visit to yesterdays Scarce Blue-tail site and had much better photographic results and walked another area that also produced some good dragonfly results.
Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly - female above, male below
Four-spotted Chaser
Large Red Damselfly male & female
Keeled Skimmer
Broad-bodied Chaser
On the way back south we stopped off at Fordham, which provide a very good site for Scarce Chaser with a single Variable Damselfly seen as well.
Red-eyed Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly