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    Default Common darter (Sympetrum striolatum)

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    Hand held by my garden pond, he suddenly appeared stayed for 5 min and disappeared.
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    Tack sharp with a killer background. What more could you ask for?

    A Brown Hawker, an Emperor and a Southern Hawker! Insect populations round here are in my view critical, I hardly see anything even on bright warm days there is only a fraction of the number there used to be as little as 5 years ago..... and I thought they had fallen then!
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