My finger has just been privileged to have been chosen to be a Blue-Tailed Damselfly's perch for over half an hour! Bethany found it on the floor. It's been a pretty dull day with a few bouts of sunshine - one of which was convincing enough for the Damselfly to believe it was going to be ideal flying time. I guess it must have been cold and needed to increase it's body heat before taking to the air again, because it was walking along the floor looking very sorry for itself. I held out my finger in front of it and it climbed on board and there it stayed. Fortunately for me the skies stayed pretty miserable and grey so it just sat and waited, with it's front feet clasped round the end of my fingernail.
Straight on it looked as though it was staring me out! It was truly stunning. A beautiful specimen, with a shimmery bronze and black abdomen ending in a bright blue patch at the end. The stripes along the thorax were a gorgeous bright green and it's perfection just blew me away.
