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Until last year, the Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly was almost unheard of in Sussex, with just short lived colonies at Cooden and farmland at Sompting this century.
After seeing my first ever Scarce Blue-tailed in Bulgaria in 2025, I returned home to find that amazingly a small number of colonies had appeared quite clos...
Not long after returning from Bulgaria, Lisa and I decided to head down to Dorset to see the colony of Scarlet Darters that have set up home there. Of course, I had seen plenty of these gorgeous dragonflies in Bulgaria, where they are known as Broad Scarlet.
The Scarlet Darter has in recent years appeared in Britain, ...
Dragonflies and butterflies were the main focus, but Bulgaria has such a diverse spectrum of other insects there was always going to be many other highlights.
Here are a few of the other delights that we saw. As I didn't have my birding lenses, most of the pictures are of the smaller creatures. Needless to say though,...
Although our tour was mainly focussed on Dragonflies, the diversity and number of butterfly species was once again very impressive, and for the 2nd year we saw over 90 species of butterfly in our 9 days in the Country.
Of course, not all of them posed for the cameras, but all the guests that were into photography had ...