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Image Taken on 02 Sep 2011
at 12:14 Image of day on 18 Oct 2011
As the sun went behind cloud this male southern hawker dragonfly ceased
his patrolling and literally hung himself up inside a pond-side bush.
We could only find him because we saw him fly in.
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Image Taken on 31 Aug 2009
at 18:05 Image of day on 07 Oct 2009
A warm wind with intermittent sun brought out a wonderful show of
dragonflies including at least a dozen of these beauties over the
hedges, ponds and along the paths. Near the end of the day this
one perched on a sequence of dead weed stems and finally stayed
on this one. It was still there 10 minutes later when we left it
in peace.
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Ref: 20091007_db1_20090831_1805_080 southern hawker dragonfly male on desiccated hogweed stem (web crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Sep 2008
at 14:54 Image of day on 17 Oct 2008
On the last of the recent warm days this beauty was still on the
wing. We last showed you some indoor shots on 5 September - these
are a more natural (if technically more limited) views,
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Image Taken on 28 Sep 2008
at 14:56 Image of day on 17 Oct 2008
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Image Taken on 06 Sep 2015
at 12:36 Image of day on 04 Nov 2015
A bit of sunshine and air temperature of about 19C or more bring out the
Dragonflies. This male Southern Hawker was warming itself on a hedge.
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Image Taken on 05 Oct 2016
at 16:06 Image of day on 19 Nov 2016
A southern Hawker Dragonfly landed in a woodpile and was quite hard to locate.
Here he is mostly hidden and given us an unusual view of the underbody.
If you have an interest in the underneath of Dragonflies you will find some
moderate quality normal light views as part of our Ultraviolet
survey (over 50 insects over 10 pages).
The insects are not dead - just chilled to calm them, and flew off once warmed up.
In the Section
Index you will also find plants and moths, butterflies, other
insects and (surprise!) moorhen, plus links to technical details of the work and
the paper produced by Wendy Harris on the results of the Dragonfly work of which we
are secondary authors.
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Image Taken on 18 Aug 2021
at 16:10 Image of day on 25 Sep 2021
Glistening in the afternoon sunshine, this male Southern Hawker Dragonfly
warms himself in the fitful sunshine
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Image Taken on 19 Aug 2018
at 15:22 Image of day on 11 Oct 2018
This beauty is a male Southern Hawker Dragonfly stopped to warm up in the
fitful sunshine.
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Image Taken on 21 Aug 2018
at 17:31 Image of day on 11 Oct 2018
This male Southern Hawker Dragonfly went to perch deep in a Blackberry
bush/hedge where we catch the beauty in dappled sunlight.
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Image Taken on 15 Sep 2018
at 15:35 Image of day on 06 Nov 2018
This male Southern Hawker Dragonfly is sunning himself on a stem of great Willow
Herb. This is 2 different views of the same individual.
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Ref: 20181106_df3_20180915_1535_024+1536_038 southern hawker dragonfly male perched on great willow herb stem 1+2 of 2 (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 13 Aug 2017
at 09:28 Image of day on 30 Sep 2017
Our first confirmed sighting this year of a Southern Hawker Dragonfly was this
male flying overhead and landing in this venerable Pear tree a few metres away.
Inspecting the image on screen we note that the 7th segment (4th 'blobs' up from
the bottom) is bi-coloured sky blue at the bottom and green at the top.
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Ref: 20170930_df3_20170813_0928_074 southern hawker dragonfly male perched on pear tree (segment 7 dual coloured spot) (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 23 Aug 2014
at 12:49 Image of day on 02 Nov 2014
This male Southern Hawker dragonfly landed on this leaf of a
Sweet chestnut (not that we get a crop - the Grey squirrels take
them all before they are ripe) and was unusually tolerant of us
moving around him. He looks absolutely pristine and likely
emerged from the nearby Duck-shaped pond.
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Ref: 20141102_df2_20140823_1249_409 southern hawker dragonfly male perched on tip of sweet chestnut leaf (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 23 Aug 2014
at 12:51 Image of day on 02 Nov 2014
This male Southern Hawker dragonfly landed on this leaf of a
Sweet chestnut and was unusually tolerant of us moving around
him. He looks absolutely pristine and likely emerged from the
nearby Duck-shaped pond.
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Ref: 20141102_df2_20140823_1251_433 southern hawker dragonfly male perched on tip of sweet chestnut leaf (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Aug 2013
at 09:56 Image of day on 25 Oct 2013
We heard the rustling of this male Southern Hawker Dragonfly
apparently trapped in a tangle of grass. Untangling him revealed
that he was hooked by his left forewing on a dead blackberry
thorn (the brown stem middle left to bottom right).
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Ref: 20131025_df1_20130827_0956_170 southern hawker dragonfly male rescue from being hooked on blackberry thorn 1 of 2 (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Aug 2013
at 09:56 Image of day on 25 Oct 2013
After being freed the Dragonfly sat for a moment on the hand. You
can see that both left wings got bashed about in the struggle,
but real damage was minimal (the thorn simply pierced a single
tiny cell) and he flew off perfectly a few seconds after this pic.
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Image Taken on 08 Aug 2015
at 10:58 Image of day on 11 Oct 2015
A Southern Hawker Dragonfly has at last made an appearance - as
usual over the main pond. At 7 fps we caught this moment as this
male was rising almost vertically.
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Image Taken on 15 Aug 2014
at 14:05 Image of day on 26 Oct 2014
Out in the sunshine this Southern Hawker seemed at the time to be
making a sharp turn in flight as appears here. But we were
surprised when building this montage that all 3 images overlaid
one another when aligned against the background. So it was in
fact turning in a hover - probably against the North-West breeze
that has been dominating the last few days. So we considered 3
separated frames but decided to show you what we
thought we saw!
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Ref: 20141026_df2_20140815_1405_137-139 southern hawker dragonfly male turning in flight 1-3 of 4 (impression montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 10 Oct 2009
at 15:14 Image of day on 12 Nov 2009
To our delight we still have Southern hawker Dragonflies on the
wing in mid October on sunny days even when chilly enough for
coats. This one was sunning itself in a stand of pine trees near
the pond. Both its right wing tips are a little the worse for
wear, but he appears otherwise immaculate.
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Ref: 20091112_db1_20091010_1514_885 southern hawker dragonfly male with 2 wing tips torn a on branch of lodgepole pine(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Aug 2021
at 10:06 Image of day on 25 Sep 2021
Next morning this male Southern Hawker Dragonfly is hanging from a
dead twig in the hedge, warming in the sunshine to start the days hunting.
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Ref: 20210925_df3_20210815_1006_003 southern hawker dragonfly male with right wings scraped(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 18 Sep 2012
at 11:05 Image of day on 26 Oct 2012
Hawker dragonflies need to warm themselves in the sunshine to fly in lower
air temperatures. You have to see them land to spot them as they align themselves
with the stems
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Ref: 20121026_df1_20120918_1105_041 southern hawker dragonfly male with tatty wing perched on foliage (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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