Stephen Barlow has been investigating the wall of a battery shed for the Second World War Strategic Starfish Site at Whixall Moss- and found a good number of dragonflies basking in the early autumn sunshine! These Starfish Sites were apparently set up as a decoy to pull German bombers away from larger target areas. Click on the photo for a closer look and see if you can spot the Common Hawker, Common Darter and several Black Darters.
Stephen also took this shot of a reasonably late Ruddy Darter. It’ll be interesting to see how many late sightings we get this year- 20th November was the latest in 2015…