We took the car out today for the first time since 23rd March, driving along the Littleferry road to park at the entrance to a track which leads through Ferry Wood to Loch Unes, a lochan which has gradually filled with sediment and vegetation over the years, the latter including....
....bog bean, now in flower, and horsetail, which provided ideal perch points for something I had been hoping to find....
....the first Sutherland dragonfly, a four-spotted chaser. Although we saw dragon- and damselflies while we lived on Ardnamurchan, it wasn't until we moved to Felixstowe, where they turned up in good numbers, that I became interested in them.
A number of damselflies were also present on the loch, including this large red damselfly and....
....this blue-tailed damselfly.
By following the track on we came out onto the links where another old friend from our Ardnamurchan days awaited us, a small heath, a butterfly which has the habit of keeping its wings closed.
We went on to see several more small heaths but only came across one of these butterflies, a small copper, which can't be much bigger than the small blues we saw the other day.
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