Welcome sight

Thought I would try to complete the task so rudely interrupted by the bees on the previous day, so I went back to Newburn and filled the box with blackberries.
In one particularly small sheltered corner I was pleased to be able to watch six of these corkers hawking about

I was surprised to see how many coupled Common Darters were still in reproduction mode.

In one small area there were about 30 pairs over a small patch of water. The water levels being at their lowest level in the past year.