creatures of the night (well, late evening)

ildlife seems to have been emerging round us recently, with little effort on our part. First, there was a dragonfly down at the allotments, darting back and forth by the privet hedge late one evening.

At sunset the following day, while we were out for a walk at Tittesworth reservoir, a heron flew low overhead and shortly afterwards a barn owl swept by, pale and silent. That's the first owl I've seen in several years, and my closest sighting ever.

Finally, in this recent batch of sightings, a humming bird hawk moth fluttered around the buddleia in our garden, again late one evening. We've seen this creature in the garden before, but not known what it was.

Tags: dragonfly | heron | barn owl | hawk moth