Time for an update as I've been quietly skulking around at my local nature reserve until now.
Had a trip to Goring on the Thames to find the Club-tailed Dragonfly.
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- Shot along the Thames south of Goring
Found plenty of exuviae on the concrete edge of the bridge but didn't find any hatching out. Guess we were too late in the year or it was the wrong day. We did find a couple of adults warming up in the riverside vegetation. I love these dragonflies.
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- First Club Tail
This was the second found by two wildlife enthusiasts we met at Bentley Wood last year. Good to meet up again.
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- Second Club Tail
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- Second Club Tail
We visited the nearby Hartslock Nature Reserve famous for its Orchids.
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- Hillside at Hartslock Nature Reserve
The Lady Orchids were over due to the hot spring but Monkey Orchids were beginning to flower.
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- Monkey Orchid in flower
There were some splendid Monkey x Lady Orchid hybrids showing quite tall spikes on the hillside.
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- Lady x Monkey Orchid hybrid
I'm not sure if the individual flowers actually look like a cross between a lady and a monkey though.
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- Lady x Monkey flowers
Helen found a rather worn Green Hairstreak that I missed whilst I was filming.
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- Green Hairstreak
As we were not a million miles away from Wrecclesham we headed off for some Glanvilles. I took about 30 minutes of video then had a play with the DSLR while Helen had a kip amongst the Ox-eye Daisy's.
I took some what I call scientific shots attempting the underside upperside and males and females.
Here are some female shots.
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- Female underside
![Glanville Female 9.jpg (84.25 KiB) Viewed 1351 times Female](./files/thumb_10112_47b0472b8b07d9f40d9ddbe42dd161ee)
- Female
![Glanville Female 12.jpg (66.61 KiB) Viewed 1351 times Nectaring Female](./files/thumb_10112_cf899dde413a31051ee4f3d1732ac36f)
- Nectaring Female
![Glanville Female 15.jpg (48.46 KiB) Viewed 1351 times Arty shot of a Female](./files/thumb_10112_ab474d825804de00219da497511d76f1)
- Arty shot of a Female
Here's a few of the males.
![Glanville Male 2.jpg (74.06 KiB) Viewed 1351 times Nectaring Male](./files/thumb_10112_855c2695d34c5f3e51a947ecd8ffeb38)
- Nectaring Male
![Glanville Male 1.jpg (123.29 KiB) Viewed 1351 times Male](./files/thumb_10112_f024009ab72dca857db4ecb02caff4d8)
- Male
And now some more arty shots.
![Glanville Female 4.jpg (50.87 KiB) Viewed 1351 times Female Glanville surveys the daisies](./files/thumb_10112_085acc511821451006565f17c0515431)
- Female Glanville surveys the daisies
![Glanville Female 5.jpg (46.74 KiB) Viewed 1351 times Female riding an Ox-eye Daisy in the wind](./files/thumb_10112_5d86f014a40ec585677a2a482abbcf00)
- Female riding an Ox-eye Daisy in the wind
Hello to John who started the thread on Wrecclesham. Thanks for the information posted here and good to meet you at the site.
All in all a good day out catching up with all the target species we had hoped for. The only down side was a detour to Homefield Wood a suggestion from someone we met at Hartslock. We couldn't find the site and spent over an hour getting through reading.