Water Nymph(?)

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OK, OK - I'm hardly a nymph! I know that but I just liked the title! lol

Today there was something I really HAD to do outside (or make a start anyway) - something I've been putting off for ages as I knew it would be dusty, strenuous and time consuming - something I knew I'd never have time for unless I did it whilst on my 2 weeks leave. So make a start I did, which meant I couldn't take too much time blip-hunting. I knew what I really wanted to blip anyway, so after feeding Tom this morning went straight to the thistle patch at the end of the paddock - on a Scorpion fly hunt which proved fruitless. I've seen it there 3 times so far in a few days, got a shot yesterday which wasn't totally to my satisfaction, so hoped I'd see it again today. When feeding Tom late afternoon I paid another visit to the thistles. No sign of Mr Scorpion fly but I did see a female. I only managed one shot though, not at all a good one, as she just kept moving about on the thistle head then flew off.
I'm out for the evening about 8-o-clock - so, what to blip? Having got as far as I could today with the mammoth task, I sat in the garden for a while with a cuppa. Then I decided to have a peer into the two small (and a bit overgrown) ponds at the bottom end of the garden, to see if I could perhaps find a frog. No frogs, but as I stood over one of the ponds looking into it, I realised that as well as seeing bits of debris at the bottom through the water I could also see, overlaid onto it, my partial reflection against the sky, framed by the outline of the tree branches and foliage above . So I thought that may make a pretty cool SP of sorts - and I really am quite pleased with the way it's come out. Blip sorted!