Dragonflies

Still slow on the bird front, summer visitors to this part of the world are understandably few. But I did see a couple of pallid swift at Ha'ir pivot fields which could be early migrants. Barn swallow were hawking over the cut grass in good numbers with plenty of locally fledged young sporting their short tail streamers.

One thing this part of the world isn't short of is dragonflies. The run off pools around the edges of the fields provide good hunting grounds for these aerial masters. The commonest of the odonata species is the slender skimmer but more easy to see with their bright scarlet bodies is the carmine darter.

Carmine darter

Slender skimmer

A full list of the 19 species of birds seen is HERE on e-Bird.