He's a regular winter visitor but I've yet to see him this 'winter', though I did hear he was back.

Weird coincidence I noticed earlier. All 3 lifers (birds I hadn't seen before) I've had in 2026 have 'ai' in name. Long-tailed Shrike, Quail & Baird's Sandpiper. Don't think I'll get a chance at Capercaillie. Citrine Wagtail probably best chance of others on the British List (still unlikely).

Thanks - appreciate the blog feedback. I have a huge back-log of insect photos to edit (eventually), which will feature in my (rather stalled) Dundee Insects etc blog, once the birding (and blogging) finally quietens down to manageable levels and the dark nights arrive.

I’d forgotten all about this, but as someone just ‘liked’ it, I’ll share it again.

He didn't specify when, or how many, he'd photographed (and I did wonder if it had been Damselflies (Common Blue/Azure/Blue-tailed) but he did say they were Dragonflies). However, he doesn't seem to have been curious enough to find out what they actually were (which is an alien concept for me 😜).

I had a dragonfly fly up and over the trees towards the other pond from there on Saturday before I found the Migrant Hawker. We were talking to a ‘local’ who said he’d photographed ‘blue’ dragonflies at the ponds before. Maybe they’ve been regular but unrecorded since 2019!

Interesting. Guess I'm going to have to go back again if the sun comes out this weekend.

Did you have more than 1 MH in view at any point?

It was scooting about really close to us at one point on Sunday afternoon, so I ended up grabbing some video with my phone and managed to get this relatively decent screengrab from that. Still not sure how I managed the on focus flight shots with camera (probably helped it was further away).

It will have been the Migrant Hawker, if you were seeing blue.