Migrant hawkers, males at least, are more brightly coloured and visibly smaller than brown hawkers. At least three were in the same area as the larger species (yesterday’s post), but in the various challenges for possession, they were the ones sometimes making interspecies aggression.
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Spindle tree fruit, almost ripe
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Squirrel on the alert, West Park
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Brown hawker dragonflies on patrol
A spot on the River Avon, just downstream of Stratford, seemed particluarly attractive to dragonflies last month. There were at least five, probably all males, of two different species, contesting for territory on the same patch. The larger (the largest common dragonfly around these parts) were a couple of brown hawkers.
They seemed never to pause from their rapid flight with sudden unpredicatable changes of direction. These were the best of the pictures I managed to get.
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