Digiscoped Southern Hawker (1 Viewer)

Paid a visit to the RSPB reserve @ Fowlmere late this afternoon in a belated attempt to capture a "birds and water" pic for this months comp.

Did not have too much success on that front, but lots of Dragon Flies about, and the following image is from my 1st attemt at digiscopeing one. It was very obliging staying in one place for 10 minutes, but I could have done with being a little futher away from if to capture the hole insect (a deep ditch prevented that), so had to go for a cropped image. Managed about 10 shots and this was the best one.

CP4500 +Swaro 65 f6.4 @ 1/29th sec

Good stuff for any attempt I'd say, let alone the first, yes, nice one.

Interesting that it stayed in one place so long, with it being so hot today

Stunning Shot Paul, Nice one. I have not seen this speceies yet this year.
Rich

Great shot, Paul.

I had the problem of being too close to my first dragonfly, cutting the end of the abdomen off. I'll know better next time. The results I got last week has spurred me on to continue to digiscope more than just birds.

Excellent shot, Paul! Me, neither, but the brown hawkers are around in our area now so shouldn't be long.
A woman from the BDS told me that hawkers sometimes get 'tired' by mid-afternoon and start perching more--certainly seemed to be true of an Emperor I photoed.
Keep up the excellent work!!