Damselfly and Dragonfly pictures 2005
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Migrant Hawker, Torrent
de Pareis, Majorca 28
October 2005
While having a picnic
lunch in this spectacular spot, this dragonfly suddenly
landed on my grey tee shirt, in a dozy condition! It
stayed put, as it was cool (probably thought I was a rock!),
and then allowed itself to be positioned on nearby rushes.
Very convenient for macro photography (note quality
comparison with digiscope shot below)
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Migrant Hawker, Torrent
de Pareis, Majorca 28
October 2005
See above
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Migrant Hawker, Torrent
de Pareis, Majorca 28
October 2005
See above. Note a hint
of the spectacular surroundings in the right hand pic.
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Migrant Hawker,
Farlington Marshes, Hants 16 August 2005
A digiscope shot at some
distance, in less than easy conditions, but reasonably
sharp nonetheless. Suffers in comparison with the 4 pics
above, though!
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Emperor Dragonfly,
Harwell International Business Centre, Oxon 21 July 2005
See below for comment
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Emperor Dragonfly,
Harwell International Business Centre, Oxon 21 July 2005
The larger dragonflies
are almost my 'holy grail' at present - very difficult to
get pics of, as they are never still. An exception was
this female ovipositing which required a digiscope shot.
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Red Eyed Damselfly,
Harwell International Business Centre, Oxon 18 July 2005
Cloudy, almost cool
conditions for a change!
Thanks to Peter Pool for
pointing out that this was not Blue-tailed...
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Red Eyed Damselfly,
Harwell International Business Centre, Oxon 14 July 2005
Getting close to these
is usually impossible - they like the vegetation out in
the water. So this is a digiscope shot!
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Black Tailed Skimmer,
Harwell International Business Centre, Oxon 14 July 2005
Normally I find this
species very wary, but this one allowed a close approach
in the hot conditions.
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Southern Damselfly,
Central Oxon 9
July 2005
A successful damselfly
twitch for this one!
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White-legged Damselfly,
Goring, Oxon 18
June 2005
A hot day for a change!
No sign of Club-tailed Dragonfly here for the second year
running, but this was some compensation.
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Broad Bodied Chaser,
Greenham Common, Berks 12 June 2005
This is a digiscope shot
- these were too wary to allow close enough approach for
the usual 'macro' dragonfly shots. This was a
surprisingly good site, with also Small Red Damselfly and
Emperor.
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Large Red Damselfly,
Otmoor, Oxon 7 May
2005
Pretty well the only
compensation from a distinctly unmemorable visit to
Otmoor in cool, windy conditions. No idea why this
decided to put in an early appearance!
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