Promoting Chu Shogi, the Haskell and Eiffel programming languages, and above all, dragonflies (warriorflies and damselflies).

Southern Hawker flying at Tim's Tarn

Southern Hawker flying at Tim's Tarn

Aeshna cyanea (male0

Southern Hawker at Tim's Tarn

Southern Hawker at Tim's Tarn

Aeshna cyanea (male)

Southern Hawker flying at Tim's Tarn

Southern Hawker flying at Tim's Tarn

Aeshna cyanea (male)

Black Darter flying from stone at Tim's Tarn

Black Darter flying from stone at Tim's Tarn

Sympetrum danae (male)

Black Darter on stone at Tim's Tarn

Black Darter on stone at Tim's Tarn

Sympetrun danae (male)

Testing shot for 2x teleconverter

Female Migrant Hawker at Hurst Grange Park

This lunchtime was the best day I've had in the park for at least a month. Four species in all (plenty of Common Darters, 1 Brown Hawker laying eggs, 1 Southern Hawker, and at least 3 Migrant Hawkers). One of the Migrant Hawkers was a female - twice she declined to have anything to do with a male.

As far as I can remeber, this is the first female I've seen there.

Selecting software for a replacement for this website

The requirements are:

  • It must be Haskell (because that's what I want to program in).
  • I need at least the full functionality of the Drupal V5 Image Gallery module, without the bugs, and we the possibility of an image being in multiple galleries.

What I'm experimenting with at the moment is:

Six species on a sunny day at Mere Sands Wood

Today actually bore a fair resemblance to a day in late August.

Common Darters were everywhere, easily outnumbering Common Blue Damselflies. I saw 4 male Blue Tailed Damselflies at the visitors centre.

Migrant Hawker at Mere Sands Wood visitors centre

Migrant Hawker at Mere Sands Wood visitors centre

Aeshna mixta (male)

Still only three species

Despite the forecast, the weather was quite decent this morning (though not up to normal expectations for August), so i went to Hurst Grange Park at lunchtime.

Still only 3 Brown Hawkers, 2 or 3 Emerald Damselflies, and a score of Common Darters.

:-(

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