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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 44
Image Taken on 11 Jul 2021
at 12:13 Image of day on 17 Aug 2021
Another Marmalade Hover-fly, this time hovering over
the much larger Rose of Sharon flower.
As well as drinking nectar they eat honeydew and pollen,
so this one is above a feast!
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Ref: 20210817_df3_20210711_1213_025 marmalade hover-fly hovering over rose of sharon flower(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Jun 2018
at 09:58 Image of day on 05 Aug 2018
A Marmalade Hover-fly stops off for a feed at this Oxeye Daisy flower.
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Ref: 20180805_d72_20180622_0958_023 marmalade hover-fly on oxeye daisy(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 30 Jul 2013
at 15:56 Image of day on 19 Sep 2013
One of the Marmalade Hoverflies ... err ... hovering.
 in flight (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg)
Ref: 20130919_df1_20130730_1556_095 marmalade hoverfly (episyrphus balteatus) in flight (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Aug 2008
at 16:54 Image of day on 11 Sep 2008
The 1st of two new raptor identifications over our patch.
We wouldn't have known what they were without the photos.
On the 22nd August this Merlin did a single brief flyby.
 female in flight (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg)
Ref: 20080911_dc1_20080822_1654_009 merlin (q) female in flight (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 24 Apr 2010
at 15:47 Image of day on 27 May 2010
A few buzzards identified a thermal that included these 2 not so
immediately identified birds climbing with them. Turns out they
were a 'pair' of Merlins. The female on the left is said to be
bigger than the male on the right, but they were also climbing in
the thermal and taken about 1 minute apart, so don't take the
relative sizes literally.
 & male in thermal also being used by buzzards (montage scaling unknown)(r+mb id@576).jpg)
Ref: 20100527_df1_20100424_1547_117+1548_148 merlin female (left) & male in thermal also being used by buzzards (montage scaling unknown)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 05 Sep 2010
at 14:30 Image of day on 31 Oct 2010
This Migrant hawker dragonfly female was hunting over our North boundary
on a chilly but sunny day and this was taken as she flew by into the wind
slowing her progress enough to follow it with the camera.
Note how the legs are neatly folded underneath - something you don't see
in our indoor pictures because the insect hasn't had time to pull them up.
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Ref: 20101031_df1_20100905_1430_119 migrant hawker dragonfly adult female in flight(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 22 Aug 2015
at 18:11 Image of day on 23 Oct 2015
Perseverance sometimes brings its own 'luck' - here we caught
this moment of a Migrant Hawker Dragonfly just failing to catch
an insect. Read the montage left to right, all of this taking about
half a second:-
- Dragonfly starts the swerve toward the insect.
- Dragonfly starts to lower it's legs to make a catch net.
- Insect almost caught in net.
- Missed it. Oh well, there are thousands more to try for!
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Ref: 20151023_df4_20150822_1811_407-410 migrant hawker dragonfly circles to catch but drop insect 4-7 of 8 (accurate montage mirrored)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 13 Aug 2014
at 12:31 Image of day on 22 Oct 2014
A couple of hours later a female Migrant Hawker dragonfly was hunting back and forth over
the warm concrete, and we got this unexpectedly sharp image as she glided by.
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Ref: 20141022_df2_20140813_1231_215 migrant hawker dragonfly female immature in flight 1 of 5 (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Sep 2022
at 13:29 Image of day on 27 Oct 2022
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Ref: 20221027_df3_20220917_1329_393 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 20 Aug 2019
at 12:54 Image of day on 10 Oct 2019
One of several Migrant Hawker Dragonflies feeding over the meadow.
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Ref: 20191010_d73_20190820_1254_077 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 03 Aug 2022
at 16:29 Image of day on 16 Sep 2022
A female left to right.
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Ref: 20220916_d72_20220803_1629_153-155 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight - left to right @8fps (accurate montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 03 Aug 2022
at 17:48 Image of day on 16 Sep 2022
A female again right to left - the first is a bit disguised against foliage.
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Ref: 20220916_d72_20220803_1748_304-306 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight - right to left @8fps (accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 08 Aug 2022
at 12:16 Image of day on 22 Sep 2022
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Ref: 20220922_d72_20220808_1216_158-164 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight 1-7 of 7 (accurate montage @8fps)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 08 Aug 2022
at 12:15 Image of day on 22 Sep 2022
Walk the Line!
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Ref: 20220922_d72_20220808_1215_148-154 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight 1-7 of 7 (accurate montage @8fps)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 08 Aug 2022
at 12:15 Image of day on 21 Sep 2022
The nice sweep of the Migrant Hawker Dragonfly at the bottom is supplemented by
another Dragonfly flying in from the top of the frame.
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Ref: 20220921_d72_20220808_1215_118-125 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight 3-10 of 10 (accurate montage 2)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Sep 2022
at 13:30 Image of day on 27 Oct 2022
This montage is accurately spaced at about 7 frames per second.
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Ref: 20221027_df3_20220917_1330_420-423 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight @7fps 01-04 of 11 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 16 Sep 2022
at 15:18 Image of day on 27 Oct 2022
we had a couple of days seeing Migrant Hawker Dragonflies at various of their favourite haunts.
This first montage is more tightly spaced than reality.
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Ref: 20221027_df3_20220916_1518_066-069 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight @7fps 05-08 of 18 (close-spaced montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 04 Aug 2021
at 13:04 Image of day on 15 Sep 2021
Migrant Hawker Dragonflies are smaller than most of the other Hawker species in the UK,
but can fly at good speed, and perform the most amazing changes of speed and direction.
The magnified insert is of the right hand image.
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Ref: 20210915_df3_20210804_1304_127-129 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight @7fps 1-3 of 4 (accurate montage @7fps + insert)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Aug 2018
at 12:29 Image of day on 04 Oct 2018
Outside our East border several Migrant Hawker Dragonflies were hunting in the
fitful sunshine, occasionally swerving from their path to catch some insect too
small for us to see. This moment of flight is about half a second
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Ref: 20181004_df3_20180815_1229_028-031 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight @7fps 1-4 of 4 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 23 Aug 2024
at 12:49 Image of day on 10 Oct 2024
The week brought a flurry of Dragonfly activity.
Here a female Migrant Hawker flew between a couple of twigs.
The order is the slightly counter-intuitive top left to bottom right.
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Ref: 20241010_d72_20240823_1249_160-162 migrant hawker dragonfly female in flight @8fps (approx montage top downwards)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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