Aeshna cyanea

and

Aeshna Mixta

 Double Hawker delight

Yesterday, the sun shone, but it was quite cool and breezy, just right to find some perched up Hawkers  :-)

I found 3 male Southern Hawkers and one female, but only the males came in range of my camera.

This male had yet to fully mature

There were also at least 6 Migrant Hawkers found too, but they were harder to find perched up.

Warren Baker

Orthetrum coerulescens

Keeled Skimmer

My trip over the county border to Sussex last week, gave me a chance to meet up with these fantastic Keeled Skimmers again, here's the male...........

..............plus a few images of the immatures.......

Warren Baker

Ceriagrion tenellum

Small Red Damselfly

Warren Baker

Lestes Sponsa

Emerald Damselfly

This species is another first for me! I had to make a trip to the neighbouring county of Sussex to find it though  :-)

Warren Baker

Cordulegaster Boltonii

Golden Ringed Dragonfly

I found this species this morning, a first for my local area, which I have studied now for 15 years........very happy with this find!!

Warren

The last species to be seen this year

Aeshna mixta

Migrant Hawker

The Migrant Hawker Dragonflies are the last species to show up on my patch, so it was good to be able to get some nice images of one this morning :-)

Warren

At last, I found one at rest.....but.....

Aeshna grandis

Brown Hawker

Whilst out on my local patch this morning, I at last found a Dragonfly that i have been trying all year to get images of, that is, the Brown Hawker,.....but I had the wrong lens with me! No macro lens just my 400mm prime lens, which will only close focus at 3.5 meters....Aaaaaaagh!  I did however get some sort of photo's, but not what I what I could of achieved had I brought my Macro lens out!

Warren

More of the Southern Hawker

Aeshna cyanea

Southern Hawker

I had some great close up views of the Male Southern Hawker today, I took 133 photo's of it, here's a few of the ones I kept  :-)

Warren