Weather in the evenings was not conducive to
Nightjars so I was unable to enjoy one from the veranda with glass of wine in
hand but daytime weather was good and some nice walks were enjoyed. One to a
very picturesque village by a slow moving river (really not very Norwegian at
all and more like England) had me thinking odonate. I know that these types of
rivers are where you have a chance of finding the very localised Common
Clubtail (klubbelvelibelle) and set about looking for any dragons or damsels. I
only had two dragons, one was a patrolling Brilliant Emerald (glansmetallibelle)
and the other which flew past at great speed was most likely the one I was
looking for but it was gone too quickly. A damselfly caught my attention and I quickly
realised it was a new one for me and remembered that also scarce White-legged
Damselfly (fjærbeinvannymfe) also likes this habitat and that was what it was
and a new odonate was in the bag!
The river also screamed Kingfisher to me and sure
enough I soon heard and then saw one as it flew back and forth along the river
and I am sure there was breeding close by. As far as I know this river is not a known locality for the species but that may just be because nobody has checked before.
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| male White-legged Damselfly (fjærbeinvannymfe) |
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| Brilliant Emerald (glansmetallibelle) |
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| male Kingfisher (isfugl) |
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| he is ringed on his right leg |
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| probably our most intensely coloured butterfly - Scarce Copper (oransjegullvinge) |
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| and my first Queen of Spain Fritillary (sølvkåpe) of the year |
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