My Viennese trip also provided my first dragonflies of the year, including a couple of species I'd only ever seen once or twice before, so I made a point of paying more attention to them once I got back to Belgium. A visit to my Brussels patch got me this nice image of a male Scarce Chaser, a species which is no longer scarce here having rapidly colonised Brussels over the past five to ten years. I then noticed a damselfly and managed to take just one picture but it turned out to be my lifer Winter Damselfly! This species is quite widespread but far from numerous and notoriously difficult to identify since its drab colouration makes it easy to confuse with teneral individuals of the much commoner species. As a result, it was the commonest Belgian odonate I'd not yet seen, so I was pleased to fill that hole in my list without trying, especially since I've made a few, concentrated attempts to look for it in the past.
