After a quiet period in my garden, a night of rain brought in some of this years young birds, nothing remarkable but welcome just the same.
Everything else below comes from Barry Buddon where I aborted my plan to walk down to the lighthouses to look for terns. Instead when the sun came out as I walked past the Yeomanry Ponds, I had a look for dragonflies and found enough to keep me there. On the way back I diverted to Carnoustie Golf Links (CGL) and picked up a few more insects and butterflies. All of the insects were photographed using a 500mm lens with a 1.4 teleconverter, not the usual kit for the job which was to have been terns, but surprisingly it worked to a decent level.
I intended to search for terns at Westhaven but ran out of fuel and begged my late lunch from Olive's daughter, mini sausage rolls, then heartburn....
No videos so I've included a blast from the past found in my collection which I was thinning out. The UHD videos take up huge amounts of hard drive space, I got it down from over 700gb to 252gb!
No videos so I've included a blast from the past found in my collection which I was thinning out. The UHD videos take up huge amounts of hard drive space, I got it down from over 700gb to 252gb!
Turtle Dove at Mains of Usan in 2014 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Blue Tit juvenile in my garden
Dunnock juvenile
the same Dunnock
Most years I get a juvenile Willow Warbler in my garden, often in the morning before there's much disturbance
Same Willow Warbler photographed through double-glazing at an angle
Four-spotted Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata, seen at Barry Buddon
Common Darters mating
Green-veined White
Meadow Brown
Here's looking at you! Meadow Brown Butterfly plus Chaetostomella cylindrica CGL
Peacock Butterfly on Carnoustie Golf Links (CGL)
Peacock
Red Admiral Butterfly, CGL
Red Admiral
Small Copper Butterfly, Barry Buddon
Small Copper
Emerald Damselflies Lestes sponsa, mating pair on Barry Buddon
same pair
Emerald Damselfly Lestes sponsa male
Common Blue Damselfly. The area on CGL where we used to see Azure Damselflies, a very similar species, was affected by the wind farm cabling and is now overgrown with only a few common butterflies found on the day
Shaded Broad-bar Moth Scotopteryx chenopodiata, seen on Barry Buddon and CGL
Wood or Common Carpet Moth CGL
European Crane Fly Tipula paludosa CGL
Meadow Grasshopper, Barry Buddon
Bog Hoverfly Sericomyia silentis Barry Buddon
Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii CGL
Broad-banded Hoverfly Epistrophe grossulariae CGL
Yellow-girdled Fleckwing Dasysyrphus tricinctus CGL
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