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17 oct. 2015

Red veined Darters in Kent

Red veined Darter

Sympetrum fonscolombii

With the season slowly starting to draw to a finish in Kent, my daughter returned home one day from school a few weeks ago having took a photo on her phone of a dragonfly on a path near to where we live. To my amazement, it was a Red veined Darter. With this in mind, I decided to visit a site nearby where they occur and the next morning I was on site in the sunshine where I managed to find 4 newly emerged Red veined Darter. during the following week I returned a few times to capture some of my best photos of this species before they leave and hopefully migrate back south.






 I decided one in one last challenge that I would try to get a few early morning shots of one so the night before, I watched one go down to roost and planned to return the next morning for hopefully some 'dewy' shots. On arrival the next morning, it was indeed quite dewy and after a brief search I managed to find 1 Red veined Darter and spent the next hour capturing some very pleasing images of this very scarce Kent dragonfly.


Red veined Darter (immature male)

 I shall endevour to post a few more times throughout the quiet winter period and share some of my photos of the season which has been photographically very good indeed.

Marc Heath

4 commentaires:

  1. Hi Mark,
    What a great series, the photos are great qualities ; the sharp, sharpness, colors, details are great. Pictures of Dragonfly with morning dew are perfect and rarely seen on this site. Only happiness. Sorry for my bad English.
    Regards,
    Michel

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  2. Superb images of this species, Mark. I was quite surprised by the ones with dew on. I've never seen dragons covered in dew! I suspect that S. fonscolombii might be on my 'most wanted' list for 2016.

    Best wishes - - - Richard

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  3. Magnificent series Marc! If you photographed them there a few weeks ago, they are probably individuals of the second generation of the season 2015, that must be rather rare in Great Britain! I appreciate particularly the "dewy", your patience was rewarded! Thank you for the sharing! Greetings, M.

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