Brown Hawker
I had been trying to photograph this species all summer without any success. A few weeks ago I came across this individual struggling to escape from the surface of a local pond. I held out a dead Reedmace stem for it to cling on to and then jammed the stem into the ground adjacent to the pond with the tired dragonfly still holding on. I took a few shots as it dried out and after a few minutes it had recovered sufficiently to fly off, seemingly unscathed for its experience.
Brown Hawker
I had been trying to photograph this species all summer without any success. A few weeks ago I came across this individual struggling to escape from the surface of a local pond. I held out a dead Reedmace stem for it to cling on to and then jammed the stem into the ground adjacent to the pond with the tired dragonfly still holding on. I took a few shots as it dried out and after a few minutes it had recovered sufficiently to fly off, seemingly unscathed for its experience.