Sunny but breezy again, making the dragonflies jumpy 🐲🪰
Didn’t attempt the fool’s errand of dragging out the DSLR, but at least managed this quick phone shot of a female vagrant darter (Sympetrum vulgatum) 🙂🤷♂️
Every year it's the same story – the migrant hawker (Aeshna mixta) dragonflies arrive in July hunting en masse, but refuse to land for even a moment, making photos nigh on impossible 🤷♂️
And then around the start of August, they start perching & allow me to get very close 👁
So here's a male that was making the most of the post-rain sunshine this evening 🙂👍
I rarely upload video here for all the well-known reasons 😬
I'm making an exception today though, as few things make me happier than seeing a squadron of ten or more dragonflies patrolling our garden, as they were this morning 🐲🪰
Very likely migrant hawkers (Aeshna mixta) as they do this every summer, but I'll try & get a close-up photo in the coming days 📷