Exorcet

Amid the clouds of damselflies, Four spot Chasers, Emperors and Black tailed Skimmers on Selbrigg fishing lake this afternoon was a lesser Emperor Dragonfly. It was not easy to see as it would suddenly ‘jink’ into bright water and effectively disappear only to reappear five minutes later in a completely different place. It never came really close and it was never seen to settle. If it wasn’t easy to see it was even harder to photograph and whatever it was feeding on … it was high octane stuff!