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Carping
- 02 Dec 2015On a still, warm morning at the end of September I was walking along the bank of the river Tech near the Spanish border. Normally that particular stretch is deserted, but on this occasion I saw a tent pitched near a gap in the bankside vegetation. It turned out that a fisherman was camped there; he was with his wife and small son - they may possibly have been there all night as night fishing for carp is popular. As I arrived he had a fish on his line and was bringing it in to the river b…
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Oh so similar!
- 21 Dec 2014 - 2 commentsDragonflies (with a capital D) is the English word for the order of Odonata, which include dragonflies (no capital letter) and damselflies. This article looks at a few species of similar looking dragonfly. They all come from either middle England or Southern France - the Mediterranean Pyrenees. These are examples of the difficulty in sorting out some of the females. The descriptions I am giving are not necessarily diagnostic but are indicative, and relate what can be seen in the photos. Click on any photograph to go to the album of that species.
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