Delightful Dainties

A few days ago, I made a visit to Sandwich Bay in warm sunny conditions where I spent a brilliant 4 hours walking around the dragonfly pond area. I wanted to see if I could get a few photos of the Dainty Damselflies and to see what else could be found there. If you have not visited this site, I recommend you do as the habitat is superb for a number of species, and you don't have to walk that far too. In the four hours i was there I managed to see c50 Dainty Damselfly with a good number seen mating and egg laying over the ponds. I must have spent an hour just trying to get a decent image of a mating pair but as anyone who knows me, I am quite fussy. Finding the pairs was easy but some pairs had grass in front of them, some were not perpendicular to the lens and some had a busy background. After a lot of searching, I eventually found a suitable pair and slowly moved in on my stomach towards them. Thankfully they stayed and I was able to take a number of pleasing images. It made the hour searching worthwhile. Also seen were 3 Scarce Blue tailed Damselfly which included a male and 2 aurantiaca phase females (photos to come hopefully soon), 1 Emperor Dragonfly, 1 Lesser Emperor, 2 Black tailed Skimmer, 2 Broad bodied Chaser and Variable, Azure, Common Blue and Blue tailed Damselfly seen. An excellent session and I look forward to returning again soon. 

Dainty Damselfly - male

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Dainty Damselfly - female