Sunday 31 May 2009

dragonflies,swallows and girls in bikini's

2 great walks this weekend,in total about 27 miles! not a lot of birds about but the dragonfly season is up on us,so elland gp was a great place to start looking.3 days of sunny weather brought out

common blue damselfly
azure damselfly
large red damselfly
broad bodied chaser
banded demioselle

large red damselfly



azure damselfly



common blue damselfly


azure damselfly

a pair of swallows nesting near bradley hall farm


best of all when i got home the latvian girls across the road were in bikinis! now thats a good day
it looked something like this only a bit different

5 comments:

East Ayton Birding said...

Nice bug shots Darrell - which lens did you use.

darrell j prest said...

the 100-400 with very cheap extension tubes off e-bay(£5).
well worth it but would get better results using a tripod/remote and live view

Warren Baker said...

Latvian girls!! what sort of habitat can I find them in then?

darrell j prest said...

stone terraced housing warren ;)

Warren Baker said...

Oh yes, Of course, should have known. :-)