Kibblesworth Brick Works…

 …or Bowes Valley Nature Reserve is a great place for Dragonflies so around the middle of last month my wife and I had a walk around the pond to see what was there. We weren’t disappointed.

Female Emperor Dragonfly.

She landed on the pond

And began to lay eggs.

She was laying eggs in several places.

Male Emperor Dragonfly.

They were always patrolling

So, getting one in a perched position was a bonus.

Emperor with an Azure Damselfly flying close by.

An Emperor with a Four-spotted Chaser above.

Four-spotted Chaser.

One of them kept landing in the same place sometimes with prey.

Black-tailed Skimmer.

Burnet Moth.

Small Skipper.

Large Skipper.

Shaded Broad-bar Moth.

Grasshopper.

Little Grebe humbug.

Little Grebe.

Twizell Woods

 22.06.22 Yet another morning walk in Twizell Woods (it’s a great place) looking mainly for Dragons & Damsels but anything photogenic really and there is quite a lot of it. After Twizell I went to Chester-le-Street looking for White-letter Hairstreak butterflies none were to be seen but I did get a Shieldbug and Burnet moths.

Broad-bodied Chaser.

Four-spotted Chaser.

A newly emerged Darter which possibly looks to have something wrong with its eye.

A pair of Azure Damselflies.

Azure Damselfly.

Common Blue Damselfly.

A pair of Black-and-Yellow Longhorn Beetles.

Black-and-yellow Longhorn Beetle.

Orange-tip butterfly.

Speckled Wood butterfly.

Ringlet butterfly.

Believe it or not there is a moth here. I only knew it was there because it flew past me and I saw it land. My guess is it is a Carpet of some description.

Brown China-mark moth.

Froghopper.

This Buzzard was eyeing me up.

Forest Shieldbug

Five-spot Burnet moth in flight.

Five-spot Burnet moths.