It's been a good year so far for migrant dragonflies with lesser emperors and
red-veined darters popping up in lots of places here in the North West. I've
resisted the temptation to twitch lesser emperor, preferring to try to find
one locally at Bickershaw, so I was made up today to find not one, but two on
the stock pond in the north of the site.
I've seen them before both in the UK and abroad but I'd forgotten how nice
they are with that bright blue saddle and green eyes contrasting with the
brown abdomen and thorax. A really special find, bringing my site total to 21
species.
However, the excitement didn't stop there. On the way back to the car I called
in at a couple of nice pools and was delighted to find a male ruddy darter,
which again was a new species at the site for me bringing my site total to 22
species in just over 13 months. Next up is red-veined darter, I hope!
Ruddy darter.
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