An amazing number of Red- veined Darters

On Sunday 15th September, following a late evening tweet from Andrew E, at 9am we assembled at Carlton Marshes car park and we walked out with John W, Robert Will, Rob and a few others. Walking around we saw up to 100 Red- veined Darters an incredible number, mainly teneral ones but at least one old male with tatty wings seen perched on some dried mud. Walking around the edge we saw around 15 exuvia (the chrysalis larvae case skins, shed when they break out to become adult form dragonflies), with one RV Darter sadly seen bursting out from one case but had very sadly died in mid metamorphosis. Plus, a Greenshank flying around and 2 Snipe seen too. Finally a very fine adult male Migrant Hawker seen flying around the GR Spider dyke by the bridge, it was seen perched a few times too.