In the Pink

A young adult not long emerged, still very pale and still too to get it's full colours; clinging onto the sorrel for dear life in the wind on the canal bank!

On getting to the canal I was met by a tent full of delicious looking homemade cakes ..a rather fabulous chocolate concoction caught my eye....and flasks of warm whatever. It would have been just the job but a km up the tow-path I was nearly mown down by a hungry looking group from the Wildlife Trust heading in that direction! At speedI might add!!! Felt a bit like infiltrating the middle of the group at that point.

This, I am thinking possibly a blue-tail, having taken a year to get to this stage as a larvae, wasn't going to be an easy ride today flitting avoiding blippers. Only on the wing for a few weeks it will mate soon depositing it's eggs on floating plants or even in the water - if it gets a moment left to it's own devices:)) Sweet and very pretty in pink it may look but it is a voracious carnivore taking flying insects such as flies, midges and mossies using their bristly legs to help scoop up the catch.

Right..home...stop thinking about chocolate cake.....