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25-05-2006, 08:32 AM
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| | | Hairy Dragonfly - Brachytron pratense
Hello! Anyone (Fourwings? Are you there?!) know what this is? I've looked through my book (and apologies for the blurry picture it was the last shot before my camera died and I clearly utterly and totally fouled up the point of focus...) and it looks more like a hairy dragonfly ( Brachytron pratense) than a common hawker ( Aeshna juncea) to me. but it says in my book thats the hairy one is scarce so I'm probably wrong, though it also says in my book that the flight period of the common hawker is from Late June to early October and this was taken last Tuesday.....
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25-05-2006, 08:44 AM
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| | | Re: dragonfly ID
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Originally Posted by Gill Catton and it looks more like a hairy dragonfly (Brachytron pratense) than a common hawker (Aeshna juncea) to me. | Hairy Dragonfly ( Brachytron pratense) according to my book for our local area, listed as being out from early May. |
25-05-2006, 08:52 AM
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| | | Re: dragonfly ID
yes mine too. I'm starting to be convinced I might be right!!!
maybe......................... |
25-05-2006, 11:02 AM
|  | Frozen | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Somerset, UK
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| | | Re: dragonfly ID
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Originally Posted by Gill Catton yes mine too. I'm starting to be convinced I might be right!!!
maybe......................... | Hairy gets my vote as well  |
25-05-2006, 12:19 PM
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| | | Re: dragonfly ID
From the pictures on the BDS web site I'd agree it was a male hairy dragonfly.
Olly |
25-05-2006, 07:55 PM
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| | | Re: dragonfly ID
Yep, thats a male Hairy alright - well done Gill, these are not easy to get close to!! |
26-05-2006, 09:52 AM
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| | | Re: dragonfly ID
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Originally Posted by Fourwings Yep, thats a male Hairy alright - well done Gill, these are not easy to get close to!! | It was a really good morning for it, sunny to start, lots of emergence (though not this chap I don't think!) and then it turned quickly cold and wet and everything slowed right down. He let me get really close, I think he was just frozen!! | | |
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