This morning, in a dusty corner of our workshop, I found a dragonfly. It had obviously been there some time as it was completely desiccated, paper-brittle, mummified, but since the piece of wood which hid it had only been placed there in the early spring, and the room did not exist last summer, it must have come in to the room this year,
This is wonderful news - for me, anyway - as one of the things I had most hoped would appear in our new and developing garden was some dragon- and damselflies. However, despite the fact that we have everything many species need, including a very nice pond with various insects in and around it, we didn't see one in the garden this year.
The nearest we've seen a dragonfly to our house was when we spotted a golden-ringed dragonfly about half-a-mile away in a small seep by one of the forestry tracks, but this is too small to be one of them.
We now need to develop the vegetation around the pond to make it more dragonfly-friendly, ready for the spring.
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