Dragonfly ID please? (1 Viewer)

SADLERC1

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• Sep 6, 2019

• #1

Hi, would be great if someone could identify this dragonfly for me please?
Location: UK, Norfolk, early September.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Regs,
Chris

 

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Farnboro John

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• Sep 6, 2019

• #2

SADLERC1 said:

Hi, would be great if someone could identify this dragonfly for me please?
Location: UK, Norfolk, early September.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Regs,
Chris

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Male Southern Hawker. Nice pic!

John

 

SADLERC1

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• Sep 6, 2019

• #3

John, thanks very much. Was very fortunate, chased it down a hedgerow for a bit and it decided to spend quite some time chomping on some blackberries. Very compliant - for a change!

 

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Jim M.

Member since 2007

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• Sep 6, 2019

• #4

SADLERC1 said:

it decided to spend quite some time chomping on some blackberries.

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Are you sure it wasn't eating an insect that was on the blackberries? My understanding is that dragonflies are entirely carnivorous.

 

SADLERC1

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• Sep 6, 2019

• #5

Jim, you may have exposed a gaping flaw in my assumption as your suggestion sounds far more likely! Thanks for the correction. Best wishes.

 

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Britseye

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• Sep 6, 2019

• #6

I've found this an excellent time of the year for seeing Southern Hawkers down here in Cornwall. Last year one of them landed on my leg and started ovipositing while I was stood in the water skimming the weeds off the top of our garden pond.

 

SADLERC1

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• Sep 6, 2019

• #7

Nice to hear they're out about in the south west too. Thanks Bristseye.