Whenever we walk we're on the lookout for dragonflies. It's late in the year for them, and the wet and cool weather doesn't suit them, so on Wednesday's wanderings we didn't see any until we came to the path which works its way through a tangle of undergrowth into the small strip of woodland called The Wilderness. There, close to....
....a ditch covered in duckweed, we saw, sitting on the pipe that spans the ditch....
....a female common darter who had left her overnight hiding place to bask in the first rays of the sun.
The Wilderness had more to offer, including a couple of late-flying willow emerald damselflies and, most exciting of all....
....a beautiful female migrant hawker.
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