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Dragonflies & Damselflies Page 23
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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Image Taken on 11 Aug 2021
at 10:32 Image of day on 19 Sep 2021
A female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly sunning herself.
Air temperature has been marginal for Odonata this week, and they
all rest in the sunshine periodically to warm up.
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Image Taken on 17 Aug 2019
at 13:43 Image of day on 10 Oct 2019
A female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly perched for a little portrait.
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Image Taken on 09 Sep 2016
at 08:41 Image of day on 28 Oct 2016
Before 9 a.m. on a mid-September morning some warm early sunshine
brought out variety of insects into a east facing hedge.
This female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly has been flying about and obligingly
landed where we could photograph her.
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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2016
at 12:12 Image of day on 29 Sep 2016
This female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly was whizzing about near a blocked gate
and finally perched long enough to get this respectable image.
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Image Taken on 25 Jul 2023
at 08:44 Image of day on 18 Sep 2023
This female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly is the first confirmed sighting this year.
Here perched on a rolled up leaf photographed from 2 angles while warming in the sunshine.
A few days later 3 of this annual visitors where in flight over the same stretch of concrete
track, but moving so fast that in-flight pics have so far all failed :-(
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Image Taken on 06 Sep 2021
at 15:27 Image of day on 19 Oct 2021
A Migrant Hawker Dragonfly basking in the afternoon sun on an Ash tree twig
at least 50m from the nearest open water.
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Image Taken on 04 Sep 2023
at 15:50 Image of day on 29 Oct 2023
Migrant Hawker Dragonflies have this year outnumbered all of the
other species combined.
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Image Taken on 07 Aug 2021
at 15:02 Image of day on 19 Sep 2021
Several Dragonflies patrol various areas on warm days, but mostly too
high to get decent photo. This female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly stopped
on a head-height Purple Loosestrife flower long enough to get a photo.
Dragonflies have no interest in flowers beyond somewhere to perch.
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Image Taken on 11 Sep 2015
at 14:57 Image of day on 05 Nov 2015
A female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly turning in the air at just the distance that the
camera was pre-set to.
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Image Taken on 16 Aug 2023
at 13:03 Image of day on 08 Oct 2023
Over the Wheat crop in the field north of our patch several Migrant Hawker
Dragonflies swoop and swerve in the search of midges. These two were
close enough for the photographer to get both flights in frame at the same time.
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Image Taken on 31 Jul 2024
at 10:04 Image of day on 11 Sep 2024
This Migrant Hawker Dragonfly seems to like flying on the north side of the house.
The camera exposure rate 'sounded' regular and we assume that the irregular
spacings are due to wind eddies and insect wingbeat patterns.
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Image Taken on 14 Sep 2022
at 14:29 Image of day on 23 Oct 2022
As the afternoon warmed up we found this Migrant Hawker Dragonfly hunting
near the blocked gate - one of their favourite places every year.
The small Hover-fly was only spotted as we prepared the image.
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Image Taken on 26 Jul 2014
at 15:51 Image of day on 02 Oct 2014
Another Migrant hawker sucking the juices from a prey item on the
wing as they usually do, discarding the husk and wings when done.
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Image Taken on 28 Aug 2019
at 11:08 Image of day on 15 Oct 2019
A male Migrant Hawker Dragonfly hangs from the desiccated leaves of a
cut Blackberry stem.
Blackberry is a valuable wildlife resource, but keeping access past areas
where they grow is a constant chore - stems can grow across a path in
just a week.
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Image Taken on 19 Jul 2010
at 15:12 Image of day on 29 Aug 2010
This Migrant Hawker Dragonfly, an immature female, was the first
of the year reported in this area.
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Image Taken on 22 Aug 2010
at 12:13 Image of day on 07 Oct 2010
This Migrant Hawker Dragonfly was for once flying low enough over
a hedge for us to net her and bring it in for a few minutes
taking photos.
Several years ago the Hawk and Owl trust determined that pellets
from hobbies mostly contained the remains of Migrant Hawker
dragonflies. But it is not so abundant this year - we have been
pleased to see just one or two.
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Image Taken on 03 Aug 2022
at 16:29 Image of day on 16 Sep 2022
In the warm sunshine a few Migrant Hawker Dragonflies were hawking up and down
the concrete track. Roy can't resist photographing them in flight even if it
does mostly produce hundred of blurred or blank frames.
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Image Taken on 01 Aug 2017
at 12:48 Image of day on 16 Sep 2017
The only Hawker or Darter Dragonflies we are seeing at the moment are a couple of
male Migrant Hawker Dragonflies hawking high over the meadow.
To get a decent sized view of the insect this half-a-second montage has closed the gaps
between the frames which at 7 fps should be spaced at about 3 body lengths.
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Image Taken on 01 Aug 2017
at 16:24 Image of day on 16 Sep 2017
A male Migrant Hawker Dragonfly was making circles over the meadow giving a
chance to get this sequence (again at 7 fps) on a pre-focussed camera
(auto-focus is too slow).
Read this montage strictly right to left ignoring height. No wonder it is
so hard to follow them - this montage is less than 1 second of flight.
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