migrant hawker in flight

[the black fox]

taken with the new olympus 100-400 lens hand held

flight of the hawker by jeff and jan cohen, on Flickr

 

[sirch]

Wow!

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

Cool

 

[Lepus]

That`s nice Jeff , don`t normally see head on infights of these , well caught indeed .

 

[Deleted member 3428]

Nice catch but it very much looks like an over saturated Southern Hawker Aeshna cyanea Jeff.

 

[the black fox]

Well I tried alby LOL

 

[Deleted member 3428]

Well I tried alby LOL

You did Jeff. If you like Dragonflies a good book is the BDS Britains Dragonflies by Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash. It is one of the Wild Guides series.

 

[holty]

cracking shot

 

[the black fox]

You did Jeff. If you like Dragonflies a good book is the BDS Britains Dragonflies by Dave Smallshire and Andy Swash. It is one of the Wild Guides series.

I’m not even good on bird I.d alby ... I just take the pics

 

[dibbly dobbler]

Cracker! Autofocus or manual?

 

[GardenersHelper]

I’m not even good on bird I.d alby ... I just take the pics

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

You and that new lens are definitely getting on well together. Another good one.

 

[the black fox]

Cracker! Autofocus or manual?

It’s A/F

 

[dibbly dobbler]

That’s impressive! Thanks

 

[BruceMo]

It’s a cracker