I started Bank Holiday Monday back where I had been 2 days previously. Unfortunately on Saturday I had not left the car, as the weather had closed in on arrival and I gave up my Gomphus quest for Club -tailed Dragonfly before it began. At 9am Monday though I was walking down to the River Severn near Blackstone. For the next 2 hours I searched, coming across good numbers of
Banded and Beautiful Demoiselles, some of the former mating. I was pleased to find several immature
White Legged Damselflies of the female lactea phase, as well as a couple of stonking
Drinker Moth Caterpillar's
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| Drinker Moth Caterpillar |
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| White-legged Damselfly (f. Lactea phase) |
After a couple of hours of checking the vegetation along the River bank I was starting to think I was going to luck out, but then I saw something wizz away and down one of the paths that descend to a fishermans jetty. Down at water level I panned the bank side vegetation and there it was, not easy to get a clear view , but definitely a
Club-tailed Dragonfly !
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| Club-tailed Dragonfly |
A record shot was all I could manage without risking an unwelcome swim, but I was very satisfied to have found what can be a difficult species to get under your belt. I thought that would be it for my Dragonfly adventures that day, but more was unexpectedly to come........
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