Big Dragonfly

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As I have said before, these large dragonflies almost never sit; they only land to take shelter from wind and rain sometimes.

We had seen this one flying about yesterday, and at the first few drops of rain, there it went; it made a straight line for shelter and landed under some leaves, all 7.5cm (3") of it:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/125s, flash}

I'm not sure what species it is, most probably a female or young male blue hawker (Aeshna cyanea), blauwe glazenmaker in Dutch. Here's a photo of a male of that species I made two weeks ago:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/160s}