A walk down to the lake in Felbrigg Park today revealed that the numbers of damselflies were on the increase with double figures of tenerals in the grass around the banks and a number of freshly emerged ones watched crawling up the wall around the southern end of the lake.
Also around the sheltered southern end were a number of more mature damsels, with in addition to a few Common Blues, I found my first Large Reds and Blue-tailed Damselflies for the year.
However the main highlight was this immature male Broad-bodied Chaser, which eventually allowed me to get close enough to get a pic, and its always a delight to see the first Dragonfly of the season.
A few butterflies were also out in the meadow to the south of the lake, including my first Peacock of the year on the patch, and birdwise the Cuckoo was still calling away from the trees along the western boundary of the park.
Elsewhere, a walk round Beeston Common produced my first Garden Warbler of the year, a Sedge Warbler was noted singing from the cliff-face between the lighthouse and the pier, and a single Wheatear was noted at West Runton.
