More dragonfly action

Didn't get out this morning, instead checked the garden before breakfast. A single garden warbler was nice and appropriate too.

Number 1 started school today so I whisked Mrs B off for a walk so we could have a cry - they grow up so fast! Påarps Mal had a big flock of 350 golden plover, as well as four greenshank and a couple of green sandpipers. A mild westerly meant we should really have been somewhere more useful but we still managed 13 grey plover south at fairly long range.

1K curlew sandpipers are such smart birds.

Next stop was the rev, packed with birds and some of them were waders. Five 1K curlew sandpipers were good and the supporting cast included; grey plover (1), Temminck's stint (2), dunlin (30), ruff (2), bar-tailed godwit (2), redshank (10) and turnstone (3). Still no sanderling... The bushes had a few migrants in them and would have repaid a little effort no doubt. But we moved on to Flytermossen for some dragonflies. Amongst the common stuff was my first Sympetrum flaveolum on the patch (my 36th BK Odonata species and the last of those on the current list that I had not recorded).

A hastily snapped photo of the male Sympetrum flaveolum at Flytermossen today.