Todays objective was Brilliant Emerald and to check an area in mid-Berkshire for Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly.
First visit was to Warren Heath, with a single Brilliant Emerald seen, as usual very active, and a single Downy Emerald on the lower pond. A single Dark Green Fritillary was seen, which perhaps was unusual for the area.
Keeled Skimmer
Emerald Damselfly
Beautiful Demoiselle
Common Darter
Brilliant Emerald
Common Lizard
Dark Green Fritillary
A visit then to Fifty and Hundred Acre Piece. Hundred Acre Piece was a more mature coniferous woodland with two pools that were heavily surrounded by trees. A Golden Ringed Dragonfly was hunting along the path, the pools held a few common species, but Fifty Acre was a delight. An excavated area that had been landscaped with a series of three pools int he middle, interlinked with various channels across the site feeding into them. It is an open area at present but many trees have been planted which in years to come will make the open mature of the pools disappear. At least eleven Scarce Blue-tailed Damselflies were seen. The number of Black Darters present was vey high in excess of 60, Emerald Damselfly easily exceeded 125, Keeled, Black-tailed Skimmers, Four-spotted Chasers, Blue-tailed, Common Blue and Azure Damselflies, Common and Ruddy Darters and Emperor Dragonfly were seen, with the highlight of a Lesser Emperor, which was seen over one of the pools several times, then seemed to disappear, alas unphotographed. Graylings were present, and on the way back a Dark Green Fritillary was also seen.
Keeled Skimmer
Emerald Damselfly
Black Darters
Ruddy Darter
Common Darter
Scarce Blue-tailed Damselflies
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Golden Ringed Dragonfly
Grayling
Dark Green Fritillary
Final and last visit was to Paices Wood, which oddly I had forgotten I had visited before, but was surprised to see along with some common species, in excess of 40+ White-legged Damselflies.
Red-eyed Damselfly
White-legged Damselflies
