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Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta)
One migrant which doesn't arrive in the UK by boat is this Migrant Hawker, a fast flying (I know, I spent yesterday afternoon trying to catch up with it) and relatively recent arrival in the UK, not firmly established and working its way northwards.
Luckily for us photographers, the Migrant Hawker is pretty tolerant of our stumbling and fumbling around in their vicinity, so this was one of the easier close-up videos to capture:
The Migrant Hawker is one of the smaller species of hawker dragonflies. It can be found away from water but for breeding it prefers still or slow-flowing water and can tolerate brackish sites. The flight period is from July to the end of October. "A. mixta" occurs in North Africa, southern and central Europe to the Baltic region.
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