Azure Hawker (Aeshna caerulea) - male
What the whole trip was about - connecting with the charming Azure Hawker. Charming and rather gregarious, which I must admit we didn't expect. This fellow took turns perching on each of us, this shot being John's badge of honour.
After a rather miserable day fruitlessly searching for Northern Emerald in unsavoury conditions in unforgiving bogs and stuck under Beinn Eighe's own generated weather system on what should have been the perfect dragonfly habitat, we finally connected with our prize at Slatterdale.
The feeling of elation that enveloped us all is a feeling known only to passionate dragonfly nuts. We went home happy that evening, but it just proves the best things are worth waiting for.
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