Nature
Chorlton to Dunham Massey
April’s 30 Days of Biking came and went without our active participation. Our biking is mostly a daily commute to work and occasional shopping trips. But coinciding time off and some sunshine inspired us to venture out last week. Being new to the area we are still exploring various routes and are grateful for knowledge and insights shared by local bike bloggers (Note to self: Remember to sponsor Lorenza.) From the map we reckoned we could get along the [wikipop]towpath[/wikipop] on the [wikipop]Bridgewater canal[/wikipop] to Dunham Massey. So we set off to explore:
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The Cascade Bicycle Club in Seattle have produced a video that pretty much says it all in under three minutes:
Dragonfly: almost emerged
We spotted a dragonfly trying to emerge from its nymph skin but the nymph had not attached itself securely to a reed….
…and so it struggled to free itself…
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Once freed it sat recuperating for a while; so I stopped filming and it immediately took off into the summer sky…. somedays nothing seems to go right.
Dragonfly nymph
I apologise to those searching for the Dragonfly nymph pictures from last year as they seem to have become lost in the move to this dot net site. I did spot an empty one today…
Visit the photo gallery for a huge version. One day I will get to film an emerging dragonfly.
Emergent Dragonflies
Just missed a couple of [W:dragonflies] emerging from their larval skins and could not get close enough for a good picture.
I did manage to collect an abandoned skin once they had departed.
