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Saturday 23 May 2015
Dragons and Butterflies
The lack of birds in Gateshead continues, so on the first proper warm, sunny day I was wandering around looking for dragonflies and butterflies. My first dragons of the year at Kibblesworth brick works, with newly emerged Common Blue and Azure Damsel and Four-spotted Chaser. Surprisingly few butterflies out today, but I did see a couple of Dingy Skipper and the first Small Heath of the year.
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Amend that to first Common Blue Damselfly of the year in Gateshead Rob :-) Only one small stripe on the thorax (as opposed to two on azure) and black abdominal markings are torpedo shaped rather than rectangles.
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Cheers Alan. Assumed this was Azure, as had a few male Azure as well. Surprised that there were no Large Red.
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