Damselfly hatches

An extremely exciting event occurred, this one in the small observation tank. I happened to glance in and saw a speedy darting creature. It looked pretty well formed and I realised it had nothing to climb out onto! I filmed it as well as best I could.

So, i put in a bamboo pole in case it needed to get out, which it did, within a very short time.

I was then rooted to the spot for as long as could (dinner got in the way), but I stayed for much of the transformation.

It was pretty awesome to watch.

Beautiful.

And quite a special thing to witness.

(c) K Wicks

Busy at the bee Hotel

This year’s bees are well underway at the hotel, we added another which is slowly getting attention. But the old one is filling up with little mud plugs. Here are a few where they are facing me or starting to make their way back out. Or they start like that in the morning until it warms up. Very cool to watch.

(c) K Wicks