Sunday, September 27, 2020

New Forest pools and ponds

Yesterday, we visited a few streams in the New Forest, today it was the turn of a few pools and ponds. 

Dibden Bottom in the morning. An ovipositing female common darter at one of the pools, and a female southern hawker patrolling the boggy heathland nearby, and being very accommodating in posing for us. 

Hatchet Pond (the small one, not the more popular large one nearby) in the afternoon. Several common darters (one ovipositing tandem), and a male migrant hawker. One other dragonfly whizzed past so fast we couldn't identify it. It was definitely smaller than a migrant hawker and my wife thought she saw some blue; black-tailed skimmer possibly? Unfortunately, we didn't see it again ...


No butterflies at all today, and looking at the forecast tells me this may well be the last butter/dragonfly walk this year .... The final table (one  = 1; few = 2-4; several = 5-9; many = 10+)?

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