Dragonflies are popular today, well done @Fairygirl for managing to photograph one. I normally only manage a blur 🙄 but I did find the skin or cast of a dragonfly today. It was next to my pond, half way up a Nepeta stem. Look at his little face 😊
They're pretty common up here on hills/glens @Sheps. I often just stop and watch them for a while when I see them. I'm sure I've said before on the forum that when doing one of the Munros in Glen Etive many years ago, there's an open, boggy stretch of ground on the approach, and as we started crossing it, there was an enormous cloud of them rising up in front of us. It was beautiful. I didn't have a video on the camera I had then, but I don't think it would be easy to capture the effect anyway - you had to be there. It was much better than the hill itself, as it's a fairly nondescript outing
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Funny seeing all the posts on dragonflies as they were in abundance today at a local lakes complex. I was walking Floss while my better half did parkrun, there were large groups of blue darters and quite a few demoiselles, lovely to see.
My swallows that built a nest on an artificial hanging bat have got chicks 😊 They must have hatched out overnight, you can just about make out the little naked chicks in this photo. I'm not sure if all 3 have hatched or not, I'll be able to see more in a few days as they rapidly grow.
Having done all I can to make my garden dog get out and chickens get in proof, I was horrified last night to hear much twittering going on outside. I thought the cat had caught a bird but my Shi Tzu had caught one of my neighbours young chickens which had found a way into my garden. My dog was showing all the signs that he thought there was another chicken to catch. Found eventually on top of some shelves in the conservatory. The dog still showed there was another bird around but we couldn't find it. He was on high alert for the rest of the evening, the missing bird eventually wandered home late in the evening. I feel mortified, fortunately my neighbour is quite philosophical about the whole incident. It is her choice to let the chickens run free range so I am amazed the local foxes haven't already wreaked havoc with the birds as they did with my previous neighbour's birds. I feel I should put up a sign, Beware Killer dog loose!
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Great pictures @CatDouch and everyone else for that matter.
I'm sure I've said before on the forum that when doing one of the Munros in Glen Etive many years ago, there's an open, boggy stretch of ground on the approach, and as we started crossing it, there was an enormous cloud of them rising up in front of us. It was beautiful. I didn't have a video on the camera I had then, but I don't think it would be easy to capture the effect anyway - you had to be there.
It was much better than the hill itself, as it's a fairly nondescript outing
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I feel mortified, fortunately my neighbour is quite philosophical about the whole incident. It is her choice to let the chickens run free range so I am amazed the local foxes haven't already wreaked havoc with the birds as they did with my previous neighbour's birds.
I feel I should put up a sign, Beware Killer dog loose!
Monarch butterfly caterpillar. I planted milkweed this year for this sole purpose and am thrilled to have at least one taking advantage so far!
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful