Brown and Moorland /Common Hawkers

seems a poor year for dragons but got a couple of Moorland Hawkers and four Browns today in the wind

a mix of mixtas (Migrant Hawkers) and a Southern Hawker and Common Hawker

Southern Hawker above

Above Male Common Hawker a good record for Alkborough and nearly slipped by amongst the hordes of Migrants

Common Hawker

in July 2009 I saw two aeshnids at Alkborough Flats that I was sure were male Common Hawkers but as the species would have been an addition to the site list and I never managed to see them settled they went down as probables; today I managed to get a male perched to prove the record and extend the site's odonata list by one more -- after two hours though the swarms of horse-flies and clegs, the worst I have ever experienced, forced a retreat