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Common Blue Damselflies, Enallagma cyathigerum, in cop, Wraysbury Lakes, 2 September 2010

Keeled Skimmer, Orthetrum coerulescens, mating pair in cop, perched. Thursley Common, July 2010

Small Red Damselfly, Ceriagrion tenellum, Thursley Common, July 2010

Common Blue Damselfly, Enallagma cyathigerum, waving its abdomen up and down, Wraysbury, July 2010.
Composite image of 5 successive shots at about 1 second intervals

Broad-Bodied Chaser, Libellula depressa, Sandy, Bedfordshire, June 2010

Four-Spotted Chaser, Libellula quadrimaculata, Thursley Common, May 2010

Small Red-Eyed Damselfly, Erythomma viridulum, on heather, Thursley Common, May 2010

Scarlet Darter Crocothemis erythraea, Tourbieres de Vendoire, July 2009

Common Darter Sympetrum striolatum, Dordogne, August 2009

Migrant Hawker Aeshna mixta, Barnes, September 2009.
This male was able to hover perfectly despite its damaged hindwing.


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