Christine's walking & birds blog

I went out looking for dragonflies, and found these - a male in the first shot eating a fly or moth, a female in the second.

After much research, I'm sure they're Azure Hawkers. It doesn't seem to be the right habitat for Azure, being forest rather than moorland; but there are wide corridors and clearings in the forest, and moorland isn't far away. After a while, the promised (threatened?) rain started to fall, and as I'd forgotten my cagoule I returned to the car and drove home.