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Photo: Black-tailed skimmer

Katie Fuller

This male black-tailed skimmer was hanging out on the steps into the swimming pool. These dragonflies like to rest on the ground when it's warm and sunny.

on5 Jul 2010
Photo: By the pool

Katie Fuller

The old swimming pool is a fantastic place to watch dragonflies and damselflies (plus moorhens, the fishing crows and even a kingfisher if you've very lucky!)

on5 Jul 2010
Photo: Emperor dragonfly

Katie Fuller

The emperor is just about the UK's biggest species of dragonfly. They spend most of their time zooming around, chasing everything else away. But this female needed to lay her eggs, and she chose to land right in front of me to do it!

on5 Jul 2010
Photo: Four-spotted chaser

Katie Fuller

The one that got away. I've spent hours and hours at the swimming pool, but getting any sort of photo of a dragonfly while it's flying is amazingly difficult. Better keep trying!

on5 Jul 2010
Photo: Small red-eyed damselflies - and an interloper...

Katie Fuller

Two small red-eyed damselflies are mating, minding their own business, when they're rudely interrupted by a red-eyed damselfly! Small red-eyed damselflies arrived in the UK as recently as 1999. They colonised The Lodge in 2005. Now you can have lots of fun trying to separate them from the very...

on5 Jul 2010