A male Southern Hawker dragonfly, Aeshna cyanea

[spiralsheep]

I capped a male Southern Hawker dragonfly, Aeshna cyanea, who was doing a surprisingly good job of blending into the dying and drying late summer vegetation (when he wasn't pretending to be made of liquorice allsorts like the Kandyman. /Doctor Who). I also capped him crapping, heh, but haven't posted that image. ;-)

Comments

[solitarywalker]

Pretty. i like dragonflies but they usually don't let me get close enough for pictures.

[spiralsheep]

Thank you. I just encountered a couple of unusually confident male Southern Hawker dragonflies on a hot sunny day when they wanted to bask more than fly. I was very lucky!