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$Tot 30-39mm, Ab 25-32mm, HW 19-23mm.\nOur most delicate Lestes, which is normally easily separated by its statue and coloration, although some Iberian populations recall L. barbarous.\nHabitat: A wide variety of seasonally dry shallow and reedy waters in the south, becoming more critical in the north-west, where it is most abundant in heath and bog lakes with peat moss (Sphagnum) and rushes (Juncus).\nFlight Season: Northern populations mostly emerge in July, flying into November.\nDistribution: Widespread in Europe, although seldom the dominant Lestes species. Distribution recall L. barbarous, and also tends to wander like that species, though rarely in similarly great numbers.\n\nThis Species is to be seen in the describe Habitats, but not as common as L. sponsa in the Netherlands.$

row of green blue decorative coniferous spruce trees in the grass in a summer park

Fine cherry blossom flowers on a tree in springtime.

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Top of tree bush background in mangrove forest for decoration on nature ans tropical outdoor landscape.

Yavoriv National Nature Park landscape in autumn morning, Ukraine

$This 'streamside butterfly' is our most familiar riverine Odonate. It is a variable species and numerous forms have been named.\n\n\n\n\n\n$

green dragonfly close up. Macro shots nature scene dragonfly. green dragonfly in the nature habitat. Calopteryx splendens male

Greylag geese near Snettisham beach, Norfolk.

A male migrant hawker hanging from a bramble in the English countryside.

Ripe cattails with sky in the background.

$Identification:\nTot 57-66mm, Ab 39-49mm, Hw 37-42mm.\nIn flight often confused with the related and similar small A. mixta. Ranges less far north, but also migratory and may be invasive in good summers.\nMales are often observed when making low patrols over drying wetlands, showing their noticeable bright colors. The males vivid blue eyes and abdomen and largely green thorax sides are especially distinctive.\nHabitat: Prefers standing waters that dry up over the course of Summer, often overgrown with low rushes, bulrushes or reeds.\nFlight Season: On average, emerges earlier than A. mixta. Seen mainly from May to August, especially in the later months.\nDistribution: Seldom abundant, and only permanently present around the Mediterranean, but scarce in much of Iberia and North Africa. Hot summer weather may lead to influxes further north. Occurs east to Mongolia.\n\nThis Picture is made in a Fen area in Flevoland in half August 2022 by high Summer temperatures.$

Pear trees in blossom, mid April, springtime in Switzerland!

Lush greenery overtakes an urban park area

Scotch broom is a pretty, yellow wildflower similar to gorse. Here it is planted deliberately as part of an urban floral garden display. We think of a broom as a brush or besom, but in Scotland, a brush called a sguab could be made from Scotch broom bound with wire and fitted to a birch handle. Broom is a toxic plant. A Scottish farm lady named Maggy Johnston was famed for her intoxicating brew: Some said it was the pith of Broom, That she stow'd in her masking-loom, Which in our heads rais'd sic a foom; Or some wild seed, Which aft the chaping stoup did toom, But fill'd our head. (From (Elegy on Maggy Johnston), who died in 1711.).

A close view of the cattails in the wetland pond on a sunny day.

ear of wheat in an agricultural field at the golden hour

$Field characters: Tot 56-64mm, Ab 43-54mm, Hw 37-42mm. Distinctly smaller than most Aeshna species.\n\nThe commonest small hawker. Numerous in much of our area, and although it can be on the wing during most months in the Mediterranean, further north it is especially associated with late summer and autumn, when it may appear in massive migrations. It is usually identified by its size, relative dull colours and the diagnostic yellow \$

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