There are lots out in the hay field these days. The field is a beautiful meadow full of grasses and wildflowers. Buttercups, daisies and vetch are the main flowering species, alongside the wild honeysuckle.
The most common ones are the four spotted skimmers (below), but I have seen a blue damselfly (no firm ID without a picture!) and a couple of others.
I'm still trying to get a good image of a flying dragonfly, with no success. They fly quickly, and its nigh unto impossible to line up a shot, focus, and grab an image before they're gone. Out of frustration, I took a couple of "almost" shots and played around in Photoshop to render impressionistic (and perhaps garish!) renderings of dragonflies in flight!
The Spring Azure blues seem to be less common, and other species of small butterfly have appeared. The new arrivals seem more skittish, though, and it was frustrating to spot one, and watch it flutter for several minutes and cover more than 50 yards without landing, never allowing a close approach. Species TBD, as for the dragonflies!
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