David Element
Wildlife Photography and Digital
Video Images
___________________________________________________________Dragonflies
and Damselflies 52 – Migrant Hawkers
MIGRANT
HAWKER DRAGONFLY Aeshna mixta (m)
MIGRANT
HAWKER DRAGONFLY Aeshna mixta (m)
MIGRANT
HAWKER DRAGONFLY Aeshna mixta (m)
MIGRANT
HAWKER DRAGONFLY Aeshna mixta (m)
MIGRANT
HAWKER DRAGONFLY Aeshna mixta (m)
MIGRANT
HAWKER DRAGONFLY Aeshna mixta (m)
MIGRANT
HAWKER DRAGONFLY Aeshna mixta (m)
MIGRANT
HAWKER DRAGONFLY Aeshna mixta (m)
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Male
Migrant Hawker Dragonflies Aeshna mixta in flight. They hold relatively small
territories when compared with other large hawker dragonfly species and they
are also more tolerant of rival males when patrolling. High ISO and
shutter-speed settings were required to maximise the depth of field and capture
wing-detail – note that the fore- and hindwings operate independently, and also
the typical positions in which the legs are held when a dragonfly is in flight,
with the forelegs tucked in behind the head, and the middle and hind pairs
folded up underneath the thorax unless prey is being carried. The first human
powered flight was in 1903. Dragonflies had already mastered their flying
technique, essentially unchanged since then, over 200 million years ago, and
their more primitive antecedents 100 million years before that!
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