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PSA: Time Travel Zone
Everything is in the wrong order!
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Phal-a-nope
We gingerly opened the door to Nel’s hide and were greeted by a mass of packed bodies emanating a noise, heat and stench reminiscent of Megadeth’s twice-sold-out show at the Marquee in 1991. The paparazzi were crammed in tighter than Tokyo commuters. No thankyou. We turned on our heels and went to scope some geese instead.
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American Golden Plover
Absolutely not twitching - we were going to Lunt anyway. Honest!
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Marshside Migrants
It’s a nice time of year at Marshside. The winter visitors are arriving, migrant birds are on passage and dragonflies are at their most visible.
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Quick dash before the rain
Presented with a sunny but blowy morning with impending rain, I decided to check out some of the ponds on the landward side of the Coast Road. I’d heard that during the hot weather a couple of weeks ago these ponds had been packed with dragonflies but not investigated at the time.
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A dragonfly weekend
I attended a dragonfly course at the Field Studies Council’s Preston Montford gaff.
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Business as Usual
A largely uneventful morning at Sandgrounders, with Glossy Ibis and Cattle Egrets both on Rimmers and not a lot in front of the hide except black-headed gulls. The weather was sunny but only sort-of warm, so all was slow in the insect department too. An Emperor dragonfly whizzed past at one point, and a Large Skipper made an appearance. I chased an Ichneumonoid of some kind around without getting a decent picture, but I’ll have a go at comparing it to some keys one day!
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