Dragonflies
A damp Sunday morning turned into quite a sunny one but all I managed to snap were these dragonflies, and another white-letter hairstreak search proved unsuccessful yet again. The earliest sighting last year was 8 July so they should be out anytime soon now, if not already. However, my dad believes an elm was removed from near the usual site during the winter months so fingers crossed it wasn't one with any, or all, the eggs on...
Butterfly watch (8) - comma, gatekeeper, large skipper, marbled white, meadow brown, ringlet, small skipper and small tortoiseshell