The common blue damselfly

On a walk to a lake with a young person who was using a camera for the first time, excitedly crouching, zooming, snapping away. He photographed cow parsley, a passing puppy, daisies, obliging moorhens, oblivious ducks, bracket fungi, all sorts of colourful delights. On approaching the water we could see roaming dragonflies, too far away […]