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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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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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Image Taken on 08 Aug 2022 at 12:16    Image of day on 22 Sep 2022




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Image Taken on 08 Aug 2022 at 12:15    Image of day on 22 Sep 2022

Walk the Line!


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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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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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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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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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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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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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Image Taken on 17 Aug 2009 at 14:54    Image of day on 28 Sep 2009

Unusually a tripple entry for today celebrating this years first Migrant Hawker Dragonflies. First we netted this female.


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Image Taken on 11 Aug 2013 at 13:39    Image of day on 04 Oct 2013

This is a female Migrant Hawker dragonfly flying across our little indoor stage before we released her back over the meadow.


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Image Taken on 19 Aug 2012 at 10:40    Image of day on 19 Sep 2012

Migrant Hawker Dragonflies are the dominant larger dragonflies on our patch at the moment. We netted this one for a few flights down our 'tunnel' before releasing it, and obtained this elegant moment of take-off.


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Image Taken on 20 Aug 2019 at 12:54    Image of day on 10 Oct 2019

This female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly is eating her latest catch (some sort of Midge) while on the wing. Once she has sucked her prize dry she will drop the body and wings to the ground.


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Image Taken on 26 Aug 2024 at 15:46    Image of day on 11 Oct 2024

This female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly hangs up in a sun-warmed hedge.


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Image Taken on 18 Aug 2024 at 12:30    Image of day on 06 Oct 2024

A Migrant Hawker Dragonfly stops long enough to catch a photo.


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Image Taken on 29 Sep 2022 at 14:43    Image of day on 04 Nov 2022

Some polystyrene foam put out for recycling attracts this female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly to lay her eggs in it. The texture must be similar to that of suitable pond weeds. Her ovipositor is sticking vertically downwards 2 segments up from the two flappy bits (anal appendages). The ovipositor was repeatedly pushed down hard into the plastic foam were we assume an egg was deposited.


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Image Taken on 29 Sep 2022 at 14:45    Image of day on 04 Nov 2022

Here is more detail of another egg deposition.
We didn't want her wasting her eggs on this fruitless venture, so chased her away.


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Image Taken on 18 Sep 2018 at 12:40    Image of day on 12 Nov 2018

A female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly sunning herself in a hawthorn hedge.


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Image Taken on 25 Jul 2022 at 16:38    Image of day on 07 Sep 2022

A female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly perched in a hedge. The yellow 'T' shape behind the wings helps in identification when perched, and the atypically long pair of 'anal appendages' help here and when in flight.


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