We visited Farlary Croft yesterday where there's a network of tracks and paths which are open to the public. It was a perfect day for dragon and damselflies, particularly round the small lochan which occupies a quarry from which, we guess, much of the aggregate needed to create foundations for the Kilbraur wind farm was extracted.
While we had a brief glimpse of a hawker, the main dragonflies were male....
....and female black darters while....
....the damselflies included plenty of male emeralds patrolling the margins of the lochan some of which....
....had managed to pick up a mate, and....
....some spectacular male common blues.
It was sheer luck that I spotted this day-flying moth, camouflaged as it was in the heather. Identifying it is difficult: it may be a silver Y.
Tortoiseshells have been very thin on the ground this year so it was good to find this one on the ling heather which is just coming into flower up in the hills.
A flower which we welcome finding at this time every year is the devil's-bit scabeous; and, each year, we have the challenge of finding it in its more unusual colours of white and pink.
We visited Farlary Croft yesterday where there's a network of tracks and paths which are open to the public. It was a perfect day for dragon and damselflies, particularly round the small lochan which occupies a quarry from which, we guess, much of the aggregate needed to create foundations for the Kilbraur wind farm was extracted.
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