I decided to work from home today. Had I not done so, I would have missed a truly fascinating, wonderful wildlife experience. Having realised the bird feeders were a bit low (the blue tit photo at the bottom rather proves that!), I wandered out to my garden shed to top up the feeders and found this beauty on the shed door.'This' is a broad bodied chaser and had clearly been living in my pond through the winter (I had in fact watched an adult lay eggs the previous summer). Today, the dragon had emerged, made its way across the path and up my shed door. Having emerged from the casing, it needed time to dry its wings to the point where they were sufficiently hardened to fly. Fabulous creature! I decided to stand guard against disturbance and after a couple of hours of drying out, the dragon had moved away from its casing and eventually crawled to the top of the door and flew.
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