Martyn Pitt

A juvenile Ringed Plover from this morning

Cheers Stu

Curtis Lee

Lenny Welch - 100 Pounds of pain ?????

"Your Autumn of Tomorrow .... sorry never heard of it"

I just shoot them with my camera Peter, much more fun Adult and juvenile Pied Wagtail

They have let some water out of the reservoir at long last, so we now have shoreline on our side, means we get the waders in closer. A Common Sandpiper

For those bird in flight shots Steve you need to be pushing your exposure (EV) by +1 to +2, or the other way is to meter off the ground. It is worth finding a Red Kite feeding station near you, fantastic sight to see them all coming in for their lunch. The one we visited was up in Dumfries & Galloway when we were on holiday, even Carol enjoyed seeing them.

Bit cool for the dragons today, so resort to plan B A Greenshank in flight

I thought you said it was fast .... with clues like that what chance did we have

How about Astral Trip - Mystic Moods

Boogie with your baby - Willie J

A male Southern Hawker from the weekend

We get the occasional Dragonfly around our back garden, they must be coming from garden ponds in the area, they do not need masses of water to survive.

Back to the ladies, a female Brown Hawker showing how well they blend into their surroundings, these can be seriously difficult to spot, until they start flying around. Their golden / amber coloured wings are always a give away when you see them in flight

Dave the Ruddy Darter has a clubbed tail, it looks like it has been pinched half way down. What you have there is a a Red Veined Darter, a scarce migrant to our shores, but fairly common in southern Europe. The 2nd one does look like a Keeled Skimmer in that image

An immature male Ruddy Darter at Belvide this morning

I could never get the moves right for that one though Pete

I would every day of the week and twice on Sunday .... brilliant dance record.

Probably because this site does not have the Canon software to enable the auto rotate, you need to rotate them manually and save them as a jpeg in portrait orientation.

Steve are you struggling to keep it upright these days

Did you lie down to take that last one Steve

Here are a couple of male Ruddy Darters. I had one of these land on my shoulder a few years ago, I was stood in the amongst the reeds hoping a Kingfisher would land on a perch out in front of me, when one just came and joined me. It's like tales from the riverbank somedays on here

It looks like a female, and if it has a yellowish stripe on each leg it is a Common Darter.

Now these are stunning to watch flying around, in the air they look a blue colour, but when perched you can see that they are a metallic blue-green colour depending how the light catches them. There were two males and occasionally a female flying around above a small pool of water behind the valve house of the dam. Male Banded Demoiselle