Monday, July 19, 2021
We made another visit to Monadh Mor last week and took a different route to view two more pools. At the first we saw mostly Four-spotted Chasers and a blue hawker that stayed out over the water and remained unidentified. At the smaller pool I was thrilled to get a first glimpse of a male White-faced Darter - although it remained distant and then disappeared.
Distinctive markings make this an easy dragonfly to identify, even without seeing the white face. It's now fairly scarce I think, so it would have been nice to see a female as well. A male Black Darter was also present.
Meanwhile, up the quarry road a couple of days ago, I counted at least fifteen Dark Green Fritillaries.
Just above the lower quarry, and nectaring mostly on the flower of Scotland.
// posted by Christine @ 6:34 AM 
