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Pair of common darters making the most of the hot summer weather on the reeds by the lake at the local park.
Had two visit the back garden the other day, chasing Butterflies.
This one, a male, stopped briefly for a rest on Geranium 'Ann Folkard'.
Love is...
Driving someone 90 miles to walk around an 8 sq. miles mosquito infested bog, to find a plant you cannot see properly without a magnifying glass. YES! I found it. I have wanted to see this since I was a kid. There were a few flys caught too and flower stems.
We saw amazing things today.
Whixall Moss Shropshire UK 8th August 2019
I doubt we would have visited this year, I wanted to see the Norman castle that Mick's ancestors built. Ruins upon ruins and that is unlikely to happen this year now.
Captive specimen. One of many beautiful frogs provided as models at a photography workshop.
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A slightly 'artier' shot of one of the four or five male Scarlet Darters in Dorset. I had to literally sit in the water to get this one. Luckily it was good drying weather.
From a lovely walk in the meadow at Otmoor
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Female Black darter...Sympetrum danae.
Thorne Moor, Sth Yorkshire, England.
The limestone track on the Moor made a good background for this image.
Immature female Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum), Devon England.
As a wildlife photographer how often do you stand in front of a scene thinking "If only an insect/bird would perch on this picturesque plant/tree!"? Well, I was stood in front of hundreds of daisies along the bank of a large pond and was thinking "If only a dragonfly would enter the scene" and this Darter suddenly climbed up from below. Sometimes wishes do come true!
There have been an unusually large number of Australasian Darters at Herdsman Lake this summer - and now I can guess why! The fish in the lake are obviously big and tasty. I am always fascinated by how the darters spear their prey and then have to get the fish off their beak to swallow them Sadly I didn't get too the whole process with this catch as the bird disappeared out of sight around corner.
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Leucorrhinia dubia
Male
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Despite the dry conditions at the time when I took this I’ve never seen so many dragonflies it must have been a good year last year with maybe 100 of this fantastic little darter on the wing, males and females.
Initially there was so much activity with mating and then egg laying that photos were difficult if not impossible to get but as the heat really built in the late afternoon they started plonking down for a rest on any available roost at least until they were evicted from it by another.
My best photos by far of this species
London Sovereign
Dennis Dart / Plaxton Pointer
DPS637 - SK02XHN
Seen on route H14 outside St. George's Centre, Harrow.
Taken 05/12/2016
A trip to Wendholme flow nature reserve on the solway. There were a lot of black darters about. I had only seen one briefly near my local pond before. We were out looking for other things so these were not my main focus.
Ah an Australasian Darter, I was stoked to be able to photograph one close up again, it had been quite some time since i last had the opportunity :-) Living on the coast this one would be having a much easier time finding food than the one at the town dam in Tenterfield.
I Managed to find a single darter in the dunes today. While out on the dunes I was shown several dune specialist flowers.
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Misty autumn morning at river Dart at Dartmeet, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England.
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Here in Holland the year so far is.. different. Climatologically spoken. No starlings when the cherries were ripe (for the first time in my life I actually got to eat them!), swallows that were weeks late compared to other years, no kingfishers, no significant rains since April resulting in dry lakes, rivers, ponds and ditches. Weird.
But when we were in the Gambia last month, it looked like Europe isn't the only continent where things are a bit out of whack. Very hot indeed and even here in this birder's paradise there were less birds than usual.
Nonetheless, it still is heaven, floating around on the water, enjoying the peace and quiet of the early mornings.
And when an African Darter flies off, for once nót showing you its shapely bum but a wonderful side-take-off, you forget all those little things instantly.
Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
EF600mm f/4L IS II USM
ISO 1250, f4.0, 1/1000s, exp comp -0,33