The male Migrant Hawker is brown and blue with a few yellow highlights, he is shown in the two photographs below. Southern Hawkers are similar, but have blue and green. These were found along the river. They appear quite late in the year - August to October (one of the last to appear at Croome).

The photograph on the below is a female, she is brown and yellow (like many female dragonflies). Notice the huge tear on one of her wings. This is not unusual later in the season, and you do wonder how some can fly with the amount of rips and tears they get.

When laying eggs, some dragonflies fly in tandem. The photograph below shows this - these were laying eggs on the lake, and here they are resting on the strange eroded stones of the grotto.