My Ode to a Duck animation is going to be a biodiversity hotspot: here are the latest recruits, the moorhen and coot. It’s surprising how these characters take on a life of their own: I’d never thought of a moorhen as being a bit of a spiv or of a coot being an ingenue.
Day: August 31, 2021
Common Darter
It’s cool and cloudy this morning, which gives me a chance to get steadily closer to this common darter, Sympetrum striolatum, with my iPhone when it lands at the side of the track at RSPB St Aidan’s.