Passing clouds of inconsequential observations
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…
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.
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.
In the murky depths beneath the lily pads lives all manner of creatures but an hour’s worth of video only revealed a newt (or possibly two) passing by momentarily…
The second visit was an hour after the first with the sun overhead hence the golden hue.
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.
