It feels like we're now in the last embers of summer when it comes to dragonflies at Bickershaw, but even so we did ok with seven species today, including southern, migrant and brown hawkers and most pleasingly both willow and common emerald damselflies.
One the willow emeralds was at the original pond adjacent to Fir Tree Flash but we also managed to find and photograph another male in overhanging trees over the Stock Pond adjacent to Diggle Flash. We'd seen a couple of "emeralds" in the same area over the past couple of weeks and suspected that they were willow emerald, but it was good to finally confirm it today.
Willow emerald damselflies spend a lot of time in trees adjacent to water and
unlike most other damselflies even lay their eggs in the branches of willow
and alder.
This is one of the photos from the Stock Pond which confirmed the
identification from there.
Great diving beetle.
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