Carol’s birthday trip this year was a jaunt to Tuscany where we joined a couple of 1-week walking trips run by Explore!. Since both began and ended at Pisa airport, we managed to arrange to do both trips back-to-back spanning…
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Testing the Bionic Eyeball
I’ve been wearing contact lenses for many years. Whereas I dislike wearing glasses, I love contact lenses which seem to be very comfortable for me and give a better all round result. One slight drawback with contact lens distance correction…
A Salopian Weekend
Being an Odo-nutter, a self-confessed dragonfly anorak, I maintain a list of the species I’ve seen in various countries. Of most interest is, perhaps naturally, that of the home team, the Odonata of the UK. In Britain’s Dragonflies, Messrs Smallshire…
A Hairy Spring
This spring has been different. For one thing, it’s been a lot colder than normal – the coldest for 50 years, I think it is now said – which has delayed nature all round. The emergence of long-awaited damselflies after…
Orchids for a Change
This ridiculous spring is messing up all manner of wildlife-related issues. Many bird species time their breeding to take advantage of an expected bonanza of flying insects. When those insects are not present in sufficient numbers, nestlings are prone to…
Taking a Damsel for Lunch
I’ve maintained a “to be visited” list of potential dragonfly haunts for some time. One of those is Harrold-Odell Country Park but, as reported in A Break from Paper Hanging, our recent spell of settled weather coincided with a bank…
Discovering Roxton
What had we done to deserve this, a second sunny day on a bank holiday weekend? At least, if you don’t live in the west of the country, it was sunny – the forecast seemed to be cutting the country…
A Break from Paper Hanging
With Odo weather being as scarce as rocking horse shit this year, I’ve been using the depressingly bad start to the new dragonfly season constructively by redecorating the lounge. However, something went wrong with the UK weather pattern: whereas any…
Off to a Start at Sandhouse
We landed back in the UK from Spain on Saturday to our traditional welcome of varying forces of rain and wind with temperatures staggering up to the dizzying heights of 12°C. Yuk! Bloody marvelous! Mind you, our trip down to…
Signs of Spring
As every Odonata watcher knows, the first to emerge at the start of a new season is most often the Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula). One was sighted almost two weeks ago in Norfolk – an individual that I can…
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