What am I going on about.... this afternoon as I drove through the reserve I watched two young lads delighting in throwing sticks and stones at a group of young cattle while "dad" sat on his bike oblivious to what was going on.....I didn't have an opportunity to engage and educate as they all cycled off before I could say anything....
An additional contingent of young cattle has arrived and I went off to count them, a total of 10 newbies giving us 33 head on site, I also noticed someone? had kindly picked a few bags of litter from the beach, sadly they left them against the field fence and the cattle have been at them now there's litter in the cattle field!
On a brighter note a regular nature photographer stopped me to point out newly emerged Broad-bodied Chaser dragonflies, Libellula depressa, my first chasers of the year, there were two immatures one was a male judging by the evenly yellowish-brown colour of the body with the broad antehumeral stripes clearly a shade of blue, a feature found in males, and a more female type with whitish antehumeral stripes.
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| Broad-bodied Chaser immature ♂ |
we just need some warm settled weather to bring out decent numbers of invertebrates, although on the guided walk yesterday we did see a few reptiles and butterflies despite the cloud and showery rain.
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