Delightful Damselflies

With pretty much beautiful sunny warm weather for much of the week, it's been no real surprise that a few Large Red Damselfly have started to emerge throughout the country in small numbers. No doubt plenty of others have emerged but in these times of isolation at home, many areas simply are not getting checked as they normally would have. I have been able to spend plenty of time at the pond this week and have had 8 Large Red Damselfly emerge which is encouraging. This has given me a few sessions photographing them around the Grape Hyacinths as they soak up the sun which also provides a superb backdrop to the photos. It was also encouraging to see a Hairy Dragonfly nymph again last night after dark which seems to be moving up into the shallows in preparation to emerge soon. I've put a few stems in pots for them to emerge and really hope I can photograph one emerging in due coarse. I shall be out every night from now on checking the progress of this individual prior to emerging. Hopefully the weather will continue to be good and I can continue enjoying the delights that the garden and pond have to currently offer.

 

Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) - male