May 2025 Dragonfly Status

May of 2025 has passed and looking back it has been a quite good dragonfly month, or at least the first two-three weeks were until the weather turned for the worse and got colder and rainier.

The warm dry weather in early May kickstarted the season with a rapid emergence of all the early species starting with Pyrrhosoma nymphula and Cordulia aenea quickly followed by Brachytron pratense, Coenagrion pulchellum, Libellula quadrimaculata, Libellula depressa and Aeshna isoceles, all of them in relatively large numbers.

I haven’t been much out with my camera for the last couple of weeks due to the changeable weather but I have then had the time to update the gallery with some new photos. Hopefully summer weather will soon return so I can get out there again.