Richard Dawkins Wildlife Photography: Crowle Moor 30-7-11

With Dave Hutton arranging to come and visit North Linc's today the Moth Trap was almost empty when I got out of bed at 6.30 this morning,thanks to Mandy for potting the moths for me so I left her to it as it seemed she was enjoying herself.
With the day stating off rather grey but a great garden tick in the form of a single Common Crossbill flying over calling as it headed west.
With Dave arriving around 9.45 we sat and had a coffee and a look through the moths with Campion being a lifer for Dave,we set off for Crowle Moor about a 25 minute drive we set about finding our Target of Black Darter a lifer for myself but Dave soon was jumping back has he found his own lifer in the form of a Adder,which was quite funny as he nearly fell over.
Not long after Dave shout out Black Darter so I quickly marched up to find my first Black Darter and soon finding an Adult Male & Female with an immature male close by,after a few photo's and a male landing on Dave's forehead we carried on along the footpath for 10 minutes or so when Mandy found an emerging Migrant Hawker and shouted us back Dave and myself must be blind as we walked right past it.So rushing back
we took a few photo's and decided on carrying on as the Hawker wasn't going anywhere for a good while.
The more we carried on the Horse flies got worse but lucky enough for us they didn't seem to be in a biting mood,I found a Beautiful Yellow Underwing a lifer for me and shouted Mandy and Dave to come and have a look then finding a teneral male Emerald Damselfly low down I took a few pics and again gave Mandy a shout knowing she wanted to photograph them but she flushed it :)
We also had a Common Hawker sitting on the trunk of a silver birch but too distant for photo's,we returned back to the Migrant Hawker which was just starting to get a bit of colour and took some more pics and started to return to the car for some lunch,with us all fed and watered we returned a third time to the Migrant Hawker which now was starting to dry out and get more colour we fired off more shots of it and all of a sudden it's wings sprang open and started to shake them and soon took to the air my first time to watch this and was just brilliant.
Common Lizard,Common white wave,Buff Footman,Shaded-broad bar,Small Copper,Brimstone,Peacock,Large Skipper,Ringlet,Meadow Brown & Common Darter were also present
Thanks to Dave Hutton for driving.