A break in the dull weather to a fairly sunny one, resulted in me having a quick look around the local ponds after work, I was getting Dragonfly withdrawal.
On entry to the first pond resulted in nothing seen, the second one, at first glance was going the same way.
I moved around to the opposite side, and here I finally saw a Brown Hawker, flying low over the pond vegetation. There was nothing else I could see, so I thought.
I sat and waited, a Blue tailed Damselfly flew passed, male, drifted out of sight, then a female Emerald Damselfly settled on nearby vegetation. I took a few shots. It was a little too far the the 40-150mm lens, which I had on at the time. It was an Emerald Damselfly. However, looking at the photos, there was no sign of Blue, and it had pale wing spots (Pterostigma), I started looking for the spur on the thorax, and there it was, where it should be, I’d found my first local Willow Emerald Damselfly, female, it don’t get much better than that. To finish the visit off, I finally found a couple of female Emerald Damselflies on the nearby bramble patch.
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