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Jan Shields has sent in some lovely photos from the Bog, Stiperstones. Pictured left is the UK's largest dragonfly the Emperor and if you look closely you can see nearly all of an Emerald Damselfly…

Andy Warr has been enjoying the dragonflies at Pole Cottage Pools on the Long Mynd and has come across the rarer female blue form of Common Hawker. Usually the females are brown with yellow spots as…

Stephen Barlow has seen 2 Migrant Hawker on Prees Heath. Firstly a male flying past and then a female who conveniently stopped for a photo. The picture shows the distinctive long anal appendages of the…

This is a sighting made by Lauren Ollie Waldron in April 2020 which has only recently come to my attention...so I'm posting it 16 moths late (!) because it's still worth sharing. Lauren spotted a…

One more just for luck! Well 2 actually, seen by Stephen Barlow at Whixall Moss on 21st July chasing off an Emperor Dragonfly and reportedly being far more effective at this than Common Hawkers. The…

Eyes can be a useful clue in dragonfly identification. Nearly all dragonflies in the UK have a degree of contact between the eyes however the Golden-ringed Dragonfly photographed here by Jan Shields at Carding Mill…

Whilst I cower in the shade Jan Shields has been out in the midday sun at Cramer Gutter enjoying the first sightings of Keeled Skimmers. These dragonflies are fairly discreet, but well worth the effort…

Darters can present a challenge with respect to identification and it's always worth taking a good look at your photos. At first glance you may well think the photo (left) is a Common Darter, but…

I almost knew as I typed the words 'there'll be no more White-faced Darters' that I was tempting fate...and here we are with a photo from John Kirkland taken on 16th July at Whixall Moss.…

Stephen Barlow reports that White-faced Darters are now very few and far between on Whixall Moss. On July 14th he found just 1 solitary male pictured left and Stephen knows all the best places to…