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| Townie: this Peregrine was at what I suppose I should describe as an 'undisclosed' urban location this weekend - though it was doing a pretty good job of disclosing itself, screeching and spitting pigeon feathers down onto the heads of shoppers into the street below. |
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| Beach bums: a selection of the 23 Mediterranean Gulls which were on the beach at Kimmeridge on Friday night |
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| A juvenile Med Gull |
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| Med Gull with Black-headed Gull for comparison |
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| Adult Med Gull |
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| Pond life: Steve Smith offered me a lift on Saturday to West Bexington to look for Red-veined Darters - we found three or four almost immediately. This one a male... |
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| ...and here the pair. |
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| Emperor (male) |
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| Emperor (female) |
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| Black-tailed Skimmer were also on the wing at West Bexington - this one was taken at Swineham earlier in the day. |
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| And at a different pond on the way home - Red-eyed Damselfly: the larger of the two red-eyed blue species of damsel - the smaller one being... |
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| ...Small Red-eyed Damselfly. The 8th segment (the two-tone one near the tail tip) is mostly blue with a black top - the equivalent segment is all black in the Red-eyed Damselfly |
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