A photo looking down into shallow water with a mass of tiny dark tadpoles. There are a few bits of green vegetation as well.
We've got tadpoles! Hundreds of tadpoles! Quite appropriate for #WorldFrogDay! 🐸
#UKWildlife #amphibians #nature #PondWatch
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Thrilled to report #Pondwatch #Spawnwatch 2026 is a GO in South East London ☀️🐸💚
THE TOADS HAVE RETURNED!!!YES I’m shouting #Pondwatch 2026 is a go💚🐸
There's something magical when you catch a glimpse of a Newt, an air-gulp bubble or the flash of a tail. Maybe because there so elusive & rare, or maybe it reminds us all of a time when we were younger, care free, and nature was more abundant? Can you remember the last time you saw one? #Pondwatch
BRB, muting everyone so #Pondwatch is my entire feed.
I’ll show you the ponds tomorrow evening-but in the meantime happy to report the Tank Pond is a go! 🐸💚 #pondwatch #spawnwatch
THE FROGS HAVE RETURNED!!!Yes I’m shouting!! #Pondwatch #Spawnwatch IS BACK!
Happy #ThrowbackThursday from Sisfur Plum on a #pondwatch 😇🌈❤️🐈⬛🐾
Have a lovely day every one 🤗💜
#Hedgewatch
A female Blue-tailed Damselfly clinging to a Spearwort leaf emerging from a small garden pond. She is in a brown form, one of five colour forms that include blue, violet, green and orange-brown. The remains of a mosquito larvae exuviate can be seen on the same leaf.
Incognito. A female Blue-tailed Damselfly that has been visiting my small garden pond the past couple of days. Being polymorphic this one appears to be in a brown form. #PondWatch
📣 Don’t forget! Get your #PondWatch records submitted by the end of July to help us learn more about pond wildlife. Every record counts! 🌿🐉
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A male Emperor in flight over a pond. He is a large dragonfly with a yellow face, blue and yellow eyes, an apple green thorax and a mid blue abdomen with black markings. He is flying from left to right of the image, the background of which is a diffuse mosaic of greens and browns from the vegetation on the surface of the pond.
A female Emperor ovipositing into floating pond weed on the surface of a pond. She is a large dragonfly with an apple green thorax, green and yellow eyes, an aqua blue face, and aqua blue and brown markings on her abdomen.
Mum and Dad:
www.blipfoto.com/entry/339409...
#insects #invertebrates #odonata #dragonfly #emperor #AnaxImperator #flight #oviposition #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #MacroMonday #BritishDragonflySociety #pondwatch
Blue tailed damselfly on a stone
Common darter on a reed
#dragonflyweek may be over but I’m still on #pondwatch
A beautiful blue-tailed damselfly and the first Common Darter has emerged.
#dragonflies
Purple loosestrife in pond
Three pairs of azure damselflies mating
Exuvia of a dragonfly or darter on reeds
Purple loosestrife thriving in the pond.
Three pairs of azure damselflies mating and an exuvia (might be a darter) on the reeds.
#dragonflyweek
#pondwatch
@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
Common Darter: male not yet fully coloured
Male Blue-tailed Damselfly
Today's sudden heatwave brought in the first 2 Common Darters of the year to my garden pond in south Devon, joining Azure and Blue-tailed Damselflies. Emperor came to egg-lay briefly and Southern Hawker back on territory at 18:20! #PondWatch @BDSdragonflies
Azure damselfly on pond leaves
Lots of azure damselflies around the pond, and an emperor dragonfly flew in for a quick visit (too fast for a photo!)
#pondwatch
#dragonflyweek
@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
An immature female Migrant Hawker hangs from a branch of a hazel tree. She is a medium-sized dragonfly, predominantly brown, with paired lilac spots along her abdomen which will turn yellow as she matures. Her eyes, currently grey, will turn greeny-brown.
A male Southern Hawker hangs from a branch of a conifer. He is a large dragonfly with yellow, green and blue markings on a brown background. There are two bold yellow stripes on the front of his thorax, and a mosaic pattern of green and blue spots along his abdomen, with bold blue transverse stripes across his final two abdominal segment. His eyes are blue, yellow and brown, and his face is yellow.
Migrant vs Southern:
www.blipfoto.com/entry/338827...
#insects #invertebrates #odonata #dragonfly #MigrantHawker #AeshnaMixta #SouthernHawker #AeshnaCyanea #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #BritishDragonflySociety #PondWatch
A Norfolk (or Green-eyed) Hawker flies over a water meadow. He is a medium-sized brown dragonfly, with two yellow diagonal stripes on the side of his thorax and pale green eyes.
A female Norfolk (or Green-eyed) Hawker ovipositing into the floating aquatic plant water soldier (sometimes called water pineapple). She is a medium-sized brown dragonfly, with a yellow triangle mark at the base of her abdomen, and pale green eyes.
Number 25:
www.blipfoto.com/entry/338756...
#insects #invertebrates #odonata #dragonfly #NorfolkHawker #GreenEyedHawker #AeshnaIsoceles #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #BritishDragonflySociety #PondWatch
Surprised to see a male Golden-ringed Dragonfly perched over my garden pond in south Devon this morning - only the second to do so in 35 years! Should be at running water, but they do wander widely. #PondWatch
@BDSdragonflies
Bumblebee on scabious flower
Blue tailed damselfly on marjoram
Nodding Beggartick wildflower
Leafcutter bee on ragwort plant
Finds in the wild garden.
Bumblebee on purple scabious, a blue-tailed damselfly, a new wildflower in the vegetable bed, (according to app the wonderfully named ‘Nodding Beggartick’) a leafcutter bee on the golden ragwort.
#naturewriting
#wildflowers
#pondwatch
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
A fresh female Lesser Emperor clings to the trunk of a sapling in a sunny birch wood. She is a medium-sized dragonfly with pale green eyes, a brown thorax, and a bright blue abdomen with a heavy longitudinal brown stipe running along the dorsal surface. Her legs are red, and her wings are clear, with a yellow vein along the leading edge.
Hubris: meet Nemesis
www.blipfoto.com/entry/338721...
#insects #invertebrates #Odonata #dragonfly #LesserEmperor #AnaxParthenope #LowerMoor #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #PondWatch #BritishDragonflySociety
A profile view of a fresh female Emerald Damselfly, clinging to a rush stem. She is orangey-buff, with panels of deep metallic green on her thorax and the upper surface of her abdomen. Her head is green and her eyes and face are brown.
Emerald:
www.blipfoto.com/entry/338685...
#insects #invertebrates #Odonata #damselfly #EmeraldDamselfly #LestesSponsa #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #PondWatch
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My pond: 5m x 3m
My neighbour's pond (with Southern Hawker exuvia): 1m x 0.5m!
For 30 mins at 5 pm the first territorial Southern Hawker of the year appeared at my garden pond in south Devon, joining a meagre 2 Azure Damselflies. I've only had 1 Southern Hawker emerge so far, but my neighbour's tiny pond has had 6! #PondWatch @BDSdragonflies
Pondwatch logo on lilypad background with dates 1st-31st July
💦 #PondWatch 2025 is here! 🎉
We're asking you to spend 30 minutes by a pond between 1st-31st July. Watch, listen, feel... and keep an eye out for dragonflies and damselflies!
Anyone can take part. Slow down, look closely, and give PondWatching a go.
🔗 british-dragonflies.org.uk/get-involved...
A photograph of a large wildlife pond. It is set in a rather wild-looking garden, and is covered in a thick layer of lime-green duckweed. There are also normal weeds growing out of the waterlily and white float, and the only underwater life that can be seen is the poking-up heads of the crispa weed underneath the duckweed raft.
A photograph of the same pond, only now its clear of nearly all the duckweed, except for tiny individual leaves, which clump together in spaces. The normal weeds have been removed from the waterlily, and that and the crispa weed have also been thinned out. The hose head is sprinkling water into main body of the pond to top up the low level, which is particularly important now that so much has been displaced from weed removal. The weed pulled out has been put in a pile to drain & let any wildlife crawl out. The fish always really like when I put the hose in the pond, for the extra oxygenation and food stirring. They jump up into the stream when it's sunny.
WIGGLE POND IS FREE AGAIN!
My Pond Hero finally came round & safely stripped out the duckweed. I can see #Frogs, #Toads, #Newts, #Tadpoles, & fish!
The waterlily roots are teeming with froglets, + thousands of tadpoles waiting for rain (soon, little'uns)!
#PondWatch #Wildlife
On June 8th (from 2pm) we'll #Ramble&Chat around Dedridge Pond. It’s #PondWatch weekend so we’re planning a bit of pond dipping too. Full details coming soon...
british-dragonflies.org.uk/get-involved...
#westlothian #urbanwildlife #NextdoorNature #pondlife #livingston
a fresh new dragonfly, its wings still stuck together, clinging to a reed in the pond waiting for its wings to dry in the sun. Above it also clinging onto the reed is the shell of the nymph from which it has emerged
The dragonfly now with its wings pinged open. Its body is brown with yellow spots down the side and a dark brown tip. Its wings are shimmering in the sunlight
Another angle of the same dragonfly with its wings looking like silver lace glistening in the sunshhine. Not long after this picture it took off and flew into the hedgerow.
#Mygardenwatch #Pondwatch #dragonflies #nature #wildlife #ponds #gardens #photography
Oooo it's all going on on the pond today. A Chaser was emerging as we sat + watched. Think it may be a 4-spot Chaser but if anyone knows different let me know. @rspbengland.bsky.social @herefordshirewt.bsky.social
It looks like the frogs in our garden pond have finished with their Spring endeavours for this year - they stay around the spawn for 2 or 3 days before moving back into the other parts of the pond. It looks like a bumper year #pondwatch #spawnwatch #ponds #frogs
Love it when you dig out your kit for filming and find unseen coverage from last year!
#pondwatch #newtwatch #toadpatrol #spawnwatch
THE TOADS HAVE RETURNED! Yes I’m shouting!
#Pondwatch #spawnwatch #ToadPatrol #wildlifePonds
3 male frogs waiting for mating season to start, prob end of Feb, early March.
Their time is nigh. #Frogs #PondWatch @froglife.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social
