Newly emerged dragonfly

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Hi,

Took this shot yesterday, and I am not sure what it is, I thought it might be a Common Hawker Aeshna Juncea, but there is not as much brown on the body. Its a male as it had a clasp on its tail.

Unfortunately I couldn't wait and it was raining, but its colour was starting to show as blue on the tail.

Thanks

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Took some more shots:
1) 12:14pm
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2) 12:18pm
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3) 12:19pm
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4) 12:25pm
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5) 12:46pm
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6) 12:51pm
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Thanks, I have seen damselflies do it but this is first time I have seen a dragonfly from the start :)
 
Absolutely brill. Well done on spotting it, and getting the photos.

What kind of time-scale from first to last shot? It must have been 'expanding' right before your eyes...
 
Oli R C said:
Absolutely brill. Well done on spotting it, and getting the photos.

What kind of time-scale from first to last shot? It must have been 'expanding' right before your eyes...
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Thanks, I have just edited the post to include the times.
 
stunning
 
Blimey, thats an absolutely stunning series.

Andy
 
Very interesting, that is a great sequence and sharp too.
 
I always find the emergence of a dragonfly mesmerising - you have captured it well. Not something I see very often, but I did manage to video an emergence - see my Flickr account
 
Absolutely stunning, would love to get some dragonfly shots, but so far I've only seen 1 and that was inside my folks house. I go round a small glade with a pond every few days and have been looking for them for ages but just never see them. Amazing set, thanks for showing.
 
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modchild said:
Absolutely stunning, would love to get some dragonfly shots, but so far I've only seen 1 and that was inside my folks house. I go round a small glade with a pond every few days and have been looking for them for ages but just never see them. Amazing set, thanks for showing.
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Round here (West Yorkshire) the last few years of poor weather I have seen very few compared to previous summers. I have walked round the ponds and hardly seen any where previous it was buzzing with Dragonflies and Damselflies.

What amazes me about the ones I just photographed is, in the space of 24hrs at least 8 had emerged and they got the weather spot on to do it, we have just had 10 days of dryish and warmish weather, when the previous 6 week before the 21st July had been cold and virtually rain every day.
 
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Lovely sequence, I had a Southern Hawker emerge from the garden pond this year, but I missed the first part! It has also made me want to extend the pond!
 
That's a great series of shots, thanks for sharing. Well done for having the patience to record the whole sequence, definitely worth it.
 
Superb well done i,ve never seen this:)
 
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