Van de facebook pagina van de NVL geplukt:
"Yesterday (February 27) my sister saw a large dragonfly in flight in the mid-day sunshine, here in the Thames valley in Oxfordshire, near Faringdon. She described it as a typical large dragonfly with clear wings that clattered in flight, but as it was going away from her into the sun she could not see the colour. She estimated the wingspan at about four inches. I can think of no dragonfly that would be flying so early in the year, but there were Aeshna species flying here into early December and we have had no frosts to speak of since then. The lowest temperature recorded so far this winter here is minus 3 C. Are there any previous records of large dragonflies surviving through so much of the winter?"