Some decent invertebrates at Hickling

As I mentioned earlier: in addition to the terrific variety of birds on offer at Hickling today, there were some decent odonata and lepidoptera to be seen. Best of the bunch, IMHO, was the first of the year Norfolk Hawker, but there were literally thousands of very obliging Four-spotted Chasers (and slightly less obliging!) Hairy Dragonflies. Lots of Azure damselflies in prime condition and half a dozen Swallowtails that mostly flitted fairly distantly around pockets of Yellow Flags in the reedbeds. New for the year was a long-overdue Speckled Wood and a fairly early Meadow Brown.