Hot and sunny with a bit of a strong breeze sums up the last few days. I was a bit worried that dragonflies wouldn't be up and doing but I was wrong!
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Common Darter
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Black-tailed Skimmer
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Black-tailed Skimmer
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Ruddy Darter
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All the above were taken on Wednesday 5 July during a walk from home to Goxhill, so not at the Mere.
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Black-tailed Skimmer in first field today
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I also saw a Brown Hawker this morning in second field but it eluded me for a photo. Pity as I haven't got a Brown Hawker in the lens this year yet.
Insects abounded this morning with grasshoppers all over the place.
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Lesser Marsh Grasshopper at the Mere
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Meadow Grasshopper at the Mere
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Gatekeeper butterflies are on the wing around the Mere and further afield, lovely butterflies and always worth stopping to watch.
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Gatekeeper butterfly
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On my outward journey from home I walk along a hedgerow/arable field field edge and I found a single Pyramidal Orchid among the long grass. Wonderful to see something other than Common Spotted at last, now that the Bee Orchids have disappeared from south cliffs.
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Pyramidal Orchid with Marmalade Hoverfly
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This morning there was a large movement of Curlew over the Mere. Most of the ones I saw and heard were calling/singing as they went West and South West.
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Curlew going West over the Mere this morning
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