Our interest in dragonflies on the reserve is fairly recent - having been kick-started by a visit by a local dragonfly-expert in spring 2011 by way of preparation for a talk that she was giving to the annual open-day. She was able to give us some management tips for dragonflies, and this was one of the driving forces that led to the main pond being dredged out in autumn 2011, as some dragonfly species favour quite a bit of open water.

Our knowledge and experience of dragonflies is still very much at an early stage, but we now monitor activity around the ponds and reserves on a fairly regular basis, and our list of identified species is growing all the time. Fair to say that identifying dragonflies by species is quite a challenge, so it is possible that we may have some other species resident that we haven't yet been able to definitely categorise, but the table below represents our current reserve list.