Trittiford mill pond and Birding adventures from near and afar : Banded Demoiselle

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Sunday, 7 May 2017

Banded Demoiselle - Middleton Lakes RSPB

Another trip to Middleton Lakes today picking up Little Gull for the year a stunning little gull so pretty, a nice sunny day and lot's of Banded Demoiselles Male and Females just stunning so beautiful and striking, we had 20+ :)
Also lovely views of Song Thrush, Common Redstart, Reed Buntings, Avocets and a beautiful close Lessser Black-backed Gull but we fear he was not well but we went the day after and he wasn't there so hopefully he was ok and flew off :)

Song Thrush

Reed Bunting

Common Whitethroat

Avocet

Little Gull

Banded Demoiselle - Female

Banded Demoiselle - Male

Banded Demoiselle - Female

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Grasshopper Warbler - Middleton Lakes RSPB

Another excellent day at Middleton Lakes RSPB getting more excellent views of the Grasshopper Warbler and even more showy today, so beautiful :)
Also so today we had are first Banded Demoiselle of the year a stunning Male and lot's of Orange Tip Butterflies about :) Also lovely views of Wheatear a year tick for us and nice to have amazing views.

On the 26th of April we had nice views of Whinchat distant but nice to watch them settled on the fence line lovely little birds and a year tick for us :)

Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Beautiful Demoiselle - Trittiford, Scribbers's Lane - River Cole

An enjoyable day at Trittiford, lot's of Banded Demoiselle's and amongst them was a Beautiful Demoiselle, I was trying to photograph the Baby Moorhen on the river when I saw what I thought was just another Banded but then I looked again and thought hmmm the wing looked very dark all over, he flew over to the other side of the River I relocated him got a record shot but I wanted closer so spent an hour trying to photograph him, got really close in the end he settled nice but was hard to get my angle right, I was so excited I hurried back to the car so I could get home and load photos so I could send Dave one to confirm that it was a Beautiful, I'm not sure if there has been any other records for that area, but there not very common me and Dave had one last year near Marsh Lane where the Melodious Warbler was that was my first ever one, so i'm over the moon to Have one near Trittiford :)
Also managed to get my first photos of Orange-tip Butterfly but he kept sitting funny lol