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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 6
Image Taken on 30 Jun 2018
at 13:52 Image of day on 22 Aug 2018
A female Brown Hawker Dragonfly flying above.
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Image Taken on 28 Jul 2011
at 18:06 Image of day on 09 Sep 2011
This Brown Hawker Dragonfly female was having great time feeding on midges -
you can see one here hanging out of the bottom of her mouth.
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Image Taken on 31 Aug 2012
at 13:35 Image of day on 11 Oct 2012
A bit of sunshine on not too-cold days bring the dragonflies out -
mostly on feeding hunts over the long grass.
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Image Taken on 31 Aug 2012
at 13:37 Image of day on 11 Oct 2012
A bit of sunshine on not too-cold days bring the dragonflies out -
mostly on feeding hunts over the long grass.
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Image Taken on 05 Aug 2012
at 14:25 Image of day on 14 Sep 2012
The Brown Hawker Dragonflies come out and hunt over the meadow
as soon as the afternoon sun shows his face.
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2015
at 15:34 Image of day on 19 Sep 2015
Flying across the wind keeping approximately the same distance from us
before turning towards us. Here is part 1 of the sequence.
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2015
at 15:34 Image of day on 19 Sep 2015
Flying across the wind keeping approximately the same distance from us
before turning towards us. Here is part 2 of the sequence.
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Image Taken on 06 Aug 2020
at 17:58 Image of day on 10 Sep 2020
The middle image in more detail.
The damaged wing is very typical of the insect after a few days
in the sunshine. Damage can get much worse than this before it has
any impact on ability to fly well.
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Image Taken on 06 Aug 2020
at 17:58 Image of day on 10 Sep 2020
The Brown Hawker Dragonfly is well named - even their wings are tinged brown.
Here is one flying by taken at about 7 fps.
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Image Taken on 25 Jun 2023
at 16:11 Image of day on 23 Aug 2023
A Brown Hawker Dragonfly veering upwards to avoid the cap wearer
This camera-lens pairing is a little faster at 8 fps.
The black at the bottom left isn't a privacy thing - following the insect just didn't
catch the cap-wearers head!
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2015
at 15:43 Image of day on 19 Sep 2015
This Brown Hawker Dragonfly was flying into the strong wind
giving us a much closer spacing in this accurate montage. The
flight appeared level to the eye, but you can see it wasn't!
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Image Taken on 18 Jul 2014
at 12:36 Image of day on 24 Sep 2014
A male Brown Hawker Dragonfly flying by. We have approximately
halved the overall width to give a better view of the insect
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Image Taken on 03 Jul 2018
at 14:35 Image of day on 22 Aug 2018
A few days later this male Brown Hawker Dragonfly is patrolling the concrete
access track. It is a really good heat trap.
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2015
at 15:38 Image of day on 19 Sep 2015
We think this Brown Hawker must have been hunting something we
can't see - they use their legs as a sort of 'net' to snare
insects in flight. Read the sequence from left to right - this
stuff is all too quick for our eyes to catch the detail.
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Image Taken on 18 Sep 2009
at 19:58 Image of day on 26 Oct 2009
We saw about a dozen bats leaving the loft and got pictures of
what we think are Brown long-eared bats. They exit through a
long existing hole under the eaves several metres from this
point, but this is where they all seem to fly and by the time you
have spotted one exiting its too late unless you photograph where
they (mostly) go.
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Image Taken on 24 Jul 2016
at 02:39 Image of day on 07 Sep 2016
A Brown Long-eared Bat photographs itself over the tree-stump at about 2.30a.m.
We don't actively take bat photos any more after threats of prosecution over the
use of flash (many times weaker than the bat got unintentionally 'wacked' with
here) but there is no point in throwing away accidental photo unrelated to any
roost.
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Image Taken on 03 Aug 2011
at 04:58 Image of day on 17 Sep 2011
This is a Brown Long-eared bat zooming past an upper floor
window leaving his shadow on the wall.
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Image Taken on 15 Sep 2010
at 05:59 Image of day on 06 Nov 2010
The upright posture of the bat at the top looks like something
out of a Dracula story.
People frightened of bats getting tangled in hair etc. should know that
we have spent hours with them flying around our heads and Marie
has long fine hair, and although we sometimes feel the breeze of
them passing none has ever touched us or our equipment. They seem
to 'see in the dark' (echolocate) better than see in the day.
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Image Taken on 05 Sep 2010
at 05:46 Image of day on 28 Oct 2010
And our favourite single frame with all that wonderful texture in
the stretched wing membranes.
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Image Taken on 12 Sep 2007
at 05:56 Image of day on 26 Sep 2007
Bats are suddenly in evidence. They are difficult to identify even in
photos, but we think we are seeing Pipistrelles in the evenings
& these brown long-eared some mornings.
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