The big boys and girls are starting to get airbourne and the air is full of the largest species of dragonflies now with Black-tailed Skimmers, Emperors, Migrant and Southern Hawkers all on the wing.
These intelligent aerial predators offer some great photographic opportunities and waiting on a bridge to capture one as it completes its regular terratorial circuit is probably your best bet.
Black-tailed Skimmer (Mark Vale)
Emperor egglaying (Mark Phillips)
Emp on patrol (Michael Frankling)
Emp resting up (Russ Sherriff)
A fresh Southern Hawker (Lawrence Rogers)
And remember that as these insects come out, our Hobbies tend to come back onto the marsh to try and out manouvre these mobile targets...
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Howard Vaughan, Information Officer