There are a few Small Tortoiseshells starting to appear now.The newly emerged ones do look very bright compared to the spring oneshad a walk in the colliery woods early this morning and saw a small very vivid red small butterfly, looking in books it must have been a small tortoiseshell, it was very red tho and boldon isnt tropical so thats the postman out.
Hi Pete i like your pics you are right the Large Skipper is darker orange i find the easiest way to id Large skipper is to look at the wings.They have markings on the upper and undersides.Small Skippers have plain wings apart from the male which has a dark mark on the forewing.Sometimes you cannot judge the size of them when they are flying around.It's a good year for Burnets i have seen big numbers of them especially at Kibblesworth they seem to be on every flower head you look at.
Hi Pete the brown damselfly looks like a young Blue-tailed Damselfly the moth in the first pic is a Shaded-broad Bar there's alot of those about at the moment.And your last pic is a Blue-tailed Damselfly.Thanks Martin, Here are a couple more from the day. I think the brown damselfly is a coloured variant of the female common blue. I'm just starting to learn about dragonflies and butterflies. Also this area had a lot of "flesh flies :eek!:" apparently they like flowers too.
It could be a Large Red it doesn't look like C Blue Dam, BT Dam or Emerald Dam.I like your pics of the Chaser and the Darter.a few pics from testos wondering what the last photo is maybe imm. large red?
It's certainly a interesting spot Testo's pool for Damselflies and Dragonflies must be the best pool in our area. I always find the Football Acad pools very disappointing. You would think they would be excellent for Dragonflys etc.thanks martin it was a bit bigger than the blue dams there was quite a few of them coming out of the grass also lots of imm. c darters a few b t skimmers but no emporers on this visit
It's certainly a interesting spot Testo's pool for Damselflies and Dragonflies must be the best pool in our area. I always find the Football Acad pools very disappointing. You would think they would be excellent for Dragonflys etc.
Hi i will have to check the pond out sometime sounds if it might be worth a look.theres a small pond on follingsby lane just over the crossing on the right, the double gates are locked to stop fly tippers.
to get in you have to take the next right then walk back down about 200yards.
there is always loads of butterflies and damsel and dragonfly there.