... Hard a Starboard ...
This beautiful male Four-spot Chaser was just banking hard right to see off a rival male, the images I got before this one (before it started to move off quickly) the wings were beating in a different sequence, the two wings on the same side of the body were beating one up and one down, then in this shot, it had changed to all four beating together, I guess for extra thrust. I knew from reading about them previously, that they could do this, but have never seen it before. When I say seen it, I mean photographed it, because you can't actually see the beating wings with the naked eye !!
Lower Moor Nature Reserve, Wiltshire.
... Hard a Starboard ...
This beautiful male Four-spot Chaser was just banking hard right to see off a rival male, the images I got before this one (before it started to move off quickly) the wings were beating in a different sequence, the two wings on the same side of the body were beating one up and one down, then in this shot, it had changed to all four beating together, I guess for extra thrust. I knew from reading about them previously, that they could do this, but have never seen it before. When I say seen it, I mean photographed it, because you can't actually see the beating wings with the naked eye !!
Lower Moor Nature Reserve, Wiltshire.