Latest Sightings

15 or so Common Hawkers, mainly males and 3 females coupling .. territorial displays and ariel coupling / wheel. .ovipositing females x2 👌🙏🏼👌
Emerald x3 males
4 Black Darters .. males .. 2 females
2 coupling/ wheel and ovipositing

Southern Hawker in rear garden on 2 consecutive days

Female Southern Hawker was clearly laying eggs in the new plants we had just put in the rocks around our garden pond.

The wife and I took a walk along the Chesterfield Canal at Gringley and were surprised to see 2 Willow Emeralds on bank-side Figwort. Our first Notts records for this Damselfly.

Willow emerald dragonflies. Two in tandem and one lone one. By the brook that runs past the Botanical Gardens, CB2 1JE.

Valley road water meadow many migrant hawkers male and common darters male and female a good afternoon watching them .

? Southern hawker flew in and occupied a mossy rock by our garden pond.

? Southern hawker flew in and occupied a mossy rock by our garden pond.

Inland at a retirement home garden no water it was flying around the car park and rested on a plant for a while before flying away

Our pond is less than 2 months old and today we had our first dragonfly visitor and she laid eggs. Southern Hawker, Pencaitland, East Lothian.

I had a lovely two and a half hour afternoon walk along Burwell Lode Wicken Fen 1.30 pm-4.00 pm. Migrant Hawkers very numerous, several pairs copulating. Delighted to see 2 female Brown Hawkers ovipositing only a few inches apart for just over 1 minute. 1 female ovipositing from 1.40 p.m-2.22 pm. 2 Southern Hawkers 1 male and 1 female, a few male and female Ruddy and Common Darters, 3 Willow Emerald Damselflies, including a copulating pair , 1 Blue-tailed Damselfly and flight views of 2 unidentified blue Damselflies.

In the buses next to the metro line flitting about and very amiable to being photographed.

Spotted (we think) a southern hawker, in the conservatory, in the evening. We first saw it as a huge silhouette behind the curtains. Presume it feeds by the ditch along the edge of our garden

black darter dragonfly at forest farm nature reserve in Cardiff

A female Common Darter Sympetrum Striolatum
National Trust’s Anglesey Abbey

A common darter – perched on a sumac tree branch on a sunny and warm September afternoon.

Photographed in my back garden in Leysdown, Kent, a few feet away from a pond.

Spotted a male Emperor on our pond in one of our fields at the end of East Ings Lane Pickering N.Yorks. Today Sept. 13 2020

Common darter (male). Ironically landed on a garden ornament of a dragonfly!

Lovely weather for an end of flight season check at some Bovey Basin sites. Most unusual sighting of 10 species was a male Black Darter at Little Bradley Ponds, the first there since September 1978. Although obviously a wanderer, it looked strangely at home perched above a bed of Crassula, rather than its usual Sphagnum. Beautiful Demoiselles were at 3 sites, 1 Emerald and 9 Small Red-eyed Damselflies at Little Bradley Ponds and a total of 18 Migrant Hawkers (with egg-laying at LBP).

Northern Emerald, male. By the Badenock Way, NH803003, between Drumguish and Inveruglas (Inveruglass on OS maps). Flew fast NE close by us.

We took a walk around Yearsley on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors and sat at Oulston Reservoir and there were so many buzzing about. We think we saw a common darter, brown hawker and possibly a common hawker? Lots of different colours and sizes. A great place to spot dragonflies

Sellers wood nature Reserve a great wonderful day mating common darters on my hand wow another darter on top of my hat defending his airspace from a southern hawker just amazing to watch . also watch 3 males willow emerald damselfly first time i have seem this damselfly here too. 16 odonata from this site.

A wonderful large female Southern Hawker spent a long time in our garden this morning. It was a privilege to see.

5 Willow Emerald Damselfly including a mating pair at Baston Fen Nature Reserve

On a path at the Frampton Marsh RSPB reserve on 12th September 2020

Seeing daily at the moment around garden pond

Sat in pub garden which has a large pond and an emperor dragonfly was buzzing around

A Willow Emerald Damselfly perched briefly on a shrub in my garden today. It’s not the first, since I saw one here on 9th August, which I reported. I omitted to mention the location last time, but it’s Houghton, between St Ives and Huntingdon.

I have little knowledge of Dragonflies but I think this is a male hawker (Aeshna Cyanea?). Spotted in An Cala (a beautiful private garden open to the public) on Isle of Seil, Scotland. There is a photo on my Instagram page if anyone would like to check that I have identified it correctly.

1:30pm today over my garden pond. Visited for about 5 mins beautiful like green with very dark blue black stripes what a privilege