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Image Taken on 15 Aug 2018 at 12:30    Image of day on 04 Oct 2018

As the sunshine waned this individual landed almost in front of us giving us the chance to capture this portrait.


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Image Taken on 09 Aug 2014 at 15:40    Image of day on 18 Oct 2014

Next day we saw this female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly land on the now spent flower of the Buddleia.


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Image Taken on 13 Aug 2024 at 12:44    Image of day on 27 Sep 2024

Possibly the same individual now preferring to hang from the stem of a stinging nettle.


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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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Image Taken on 25 Jul 2025 at 16:37    Image of day on 18 Sep 2025

This female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly gave generously of her time in front of the camera.


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Image Taken on 17 Sep 2022 at 13:29    Image of day on 27 Oct 2022

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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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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2012 at 13:09    Image of day on 10 Sep 2012

For an in-flight photograph of a female Migrant Hawker Dragonfly this image is ridiculously sharp.


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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2012 at 13:09    Image of day on 10 Sep 2012

A detail from the previous in-flight photo.


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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 25 Jul 2025 at 16:38    Image of day on 18 Sep 2025

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Image Taken on 25 Jul 2025 at 17:45    Image of day on 18 Sep 2025

This montage starts on the bottom right, rises up and then comes down on the left as the insect approached the camera.


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