A male Migrant Hawker flew into my orchard and landed on a damson branch right in front of me, where it proceeded to sun itself for a few minutes. It came in from the direction of the Reserve Discovery Pool which was only a few hundred yards away over my garden boundary field drain. The afternoon was overcast with occasional bursts of sunshine.
Females have a propensity for laying eggs on the stems of Reed Mace and Yellow Flag which are in abundance round the Reserve's older pools, so this male could have been patrolling the area in search of one.