It was a lovely warm summer day on the south coast of Cornwall yesterday and dragonflies were out and about breeding on local ponds.
Female Emperor Dragonfly ovipositing her eggs
Male Broad Bodied Chaser.
Black-tailed Skimmer
We had a strong migration of Painted Lady butterflies and would you believe that these 75mm beauties all have flown in on mass from North Africa and they will now migrate on up to and including the north of Scotland and they are the only butterfly that has been recorded as far north as Iceland.
Small Tortoiseshell
And finally a female Peregrine hot from the chase tucks into a luckless Pigeon that has just ended its days
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