I went to Carnoustie Golf Links to do a bird survey, problem was I was too late in the morning on a sunny day, so it was never going to be a big list. I could have recorded the birds I heard singing, Sedge Warblers, Dunnocks, Chiffchaffs and Willow Warblers but decided instead to look for Azure Damselflies. Unfortunately the area I've found best for Azure's had been affected by the Wind Farm cable installation and I could only find Blue-Tailed and Common Blue. I'd hoped to photograph Swifts, Sand Martins and Swallow but didn't see a single one.
Blue-tailed Damselfly. Female: light spot at the end of the abdomen (segment 8). At least 5 different colour forms: violet (violacea) which mature to be blue (typica) or olive-green with a brown abdomen spot (infuscans). Orange-pink with a blue abdomen spot (rufescens) which mature to be brown (infuscans-obseleta)
Male: light-blue spot at the end of the abdomen (segment 8). Two blue ante-humeral stripes on top of the thorax. Blue eyes
Common Blue Damselfly male, I didn't see any females on this visit
Common Blue Butterfly male
Ringlet Butterfly, very flighty and always in impossible places down in the grass. A first this year for me
I think this is a Toad but it's so small I didn't pick it up to have a look, it's much smaller than my late frogs in my pond. I like to think of this photo as having a giant toad sitting beside a tree. That's the way my mind works
I reckon this will be a Northern Marsh Orchid, I might ask about it as they confuse me
The Mute Swans on the large loch at Carnoustie Links have five large cygnets, the whole family were bathing when I went there to photograph Swifts, none came
One of the young lads/ladies (what next I'm being PC about a cygnet)
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