The Gatekeeper didn’t seem to care much, but after a few seconds, a new Speckled Wood joined the ‘attack’ and this was too much for the resident SW, and a battle commenced! The Gatekeeper, meanwhile, sneakily went and settled on the resident butterfly’s leaf! A few minute’s later, Speckly was back in position, slightly aggrieved that Gatey was keeping his leaf warm in his absence!
At lunchtime, I decided to have a quick dip in the pond with my ridiculously expensive pond net (don’t ask). The first scoop produced a damselfy nymph, which is something of a surprise considering how few dragonflies at all ever come to the pond. Perhaps it came in the vegetation I recently introduced from elsewhere. When I scanned the emergent vegetation, there was also an exuvia (empty skin) of a recently emerged damselfly on one of the Water Dock leaves.v At night, we popped out to the park which is only 200m from our house, to set the scope up to look at Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and Comet Neowise. All looked splendid, though the comet seems to have faded somewhat.
Back home, I set up my compact camera on a tripod in our front drive and took this photo of the comet between the houses of our neighbours, opposite.
Comet NEOWISE between two of our neighbours’ houses, taken from our front drive, Peterborough, 20.7.20
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