Paul Woolnough
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I could not get any good damselfly photographs at Little Plumstead on Saturday.
One insect would not settle. I focussed on the grass near the insect and when it landed I took a picture.
Did not show much interest in the picture as I only managed to get a shot of the abdomen. Have blown up the picture and found there was no U for azUre but the marking for common blue damselfly.
The other blue damselflies I saw were azures.
From the lakes near Little Plumstead hospital today
Four-spotted chaser and many azure damselflies. Had variable and large red damselfly yesterday at same spot but no azures strangely.
(I did hope for my first common blue or blue-tailed damselflies of the year. None seen. All possibles for these showed themselves to be azures, for example a mature green female.) This posting has been revised below.
I could not get any good damselfly photographs at Little Plumstead on Saturday.
One insect would not settle. I focussed on the grass near the insect and when it landed I took a picture.
Did not show much interest in the picture as I only managed to get a shot of the abdomen. Have blown up the picture and found there was no U for azUre but the marking for common blue damselfly.
The other blue damselflies I saw were azures.