As you know JJ's Wargames likes to include other interesting things alongside the wargames stuff, so I thought you might like to see these pictures I grabbed last night after getting back from a quick bike ride.
On entering our back garden this amazing creature came swooping past doing circuits of the back lawn seeming to be catching a mass of flying ants that had decided to take to the sultry summer evening air
http://www.british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/common-hawker
Every now and then, as if to catch its breath, the insect would hover as it selected a suitable perch in preparation for another sortie among the myriad of black flying ants that floated over the grass.
Carolyn and I were transfixed watching the amazing flying attributes of this master of winged combat. On one of its final landing stops I managed to get it in the viewfinder of the camera on maximum telephoto as approaching it too closely was impossible, as was trying to capture it in flight.
I know nothing about one dragonfly from another so went to the link above, basing my pictures to be of the most likely suspect, a Common Hawker Dragonfly. It was a real treat to see this fantastic insect showing off its flying skills.
Next up, I'm off to the DWG to run a Chain of Command game on the push in from Omaha Beach and the 3/96e Ligne are done and ready for basing so we will get the third and final tutorial post up plus the history of the 96e Ligne at Talavera.
