Dragons and Damsels on Pevensey Levels

Outside, the rain looks set-in for the day and as autumn inevitably moves towards winter, it is nice to look back on some of my highlights of spring and summer. Coastal flats are a great habitat for dragonflies and damselflies and Pevensey Levels is a good place to watch them.

Variable Damselfly (Coenagrion pulchellum) (male)

Variable Damselfly (Coenagrion pulchellum) (mating)

 

 

Red-eyed Damselfly (Erythromma najas) (male)

 

 

 

Fish Fry

 

 

 

Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis) (ovipositing female)

 

 

 

Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) (mating)

 

Dark Bush-cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) (female)