This particular beauty was captured along the river Lyner, a couple of miles outside Callington, Cornwall.
Living up to its common name there can be no denying that this is one hell of a beautiful damselfly! It presents a dazzling spectacle that greatly enhances the rivers and streams it inhabits.
Like all damselflies, it likes to sit on sunny perches and can be very wary so I was very careful approaching it. I hardly had time to focus before it flew off!
Perching high up on an Oak leaf this damselfly has an excellent vantage point whereby he can dash off to chase passing insects.
I noticed that the damselflies would often return to the same oak leaf. Oak trees attract and provide a home to a wonderful diversity of insect life and the damselflies appear to capitalize on this.
