Lynchcombe Steps

Lynchcombe is full of dragonflies at this time of year. It has no water apart from the stream in the woods that flows into the sink hole. This is dark and not a site for dragonflies. Those on Lynchcombe are just passing through.

Common darters (Sympetrum striolatum) love to sit on the dead bracken cut in recent clearance work.

Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) – Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK.

Others angle themselves to pick up the sun.

Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) – Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. (Photo from 2011)

The hawkers rest in the trees and the brambles of the hedgerows.

Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) – Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK.

Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea) – Lynchcombe.

This female emperor matched the colour of the grass and was very hard to spot.

Emperor Dragonfly (Ana imperator) resting in the grass at Lynchcombe

And Finally…

I got some more glimpses of the Holly Blue (Celastrina argils) I saw for the first time on Lynchcombe a couple of weeks ago.  This time it had its wings open – a rare sight.

Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) – Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK.