Southern Emerald Damselflies again this year on north Kent marshes.

Thanks to a heads-up from an Odonthead mate, I had five Southern Emerald Damsels (two male, three female) today at Cliffe RSPB - in the same basic area as last year. From the second viewing mound on the 'main' road leading from Pond Hill, take the stony track north, flanked on each side by a sparse hedge. There was a female in the first E-W ditch N of the road (ie last year's most visited site), but also four along the stony track itself - at the base of brambles to the W of the track, 20m S of the ditch. Photos of male and female attached. Bumping into the RSPB wardens, they said they hadn't heard that SED had been seen again at Cliffe this year... but said they have been seen this year at Northward Hill RSPB, a few miles east. The Isle of Grain abounds with apparently suitable habitat - so colonization seems a shoe-in.