Dragonfly ID please

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Butterflies%20and%20insects/DSCF7421.jpg

Found this in Broubster forest this afternoon, am thinking it has to be some kind of Hawker, biggest dragonfly I have ever seen, wish I had had a measure with me 2.5" or may be longer.

[Aaldtimer]

Looks like a Common Aeshna to me. Aeshna juncea. If the spots are blue it's a male, if green, female. Average length 3".

[Kenn]

Many thanks the marks were pale yellow and very pale green at least that's what my eye was seeing!
Very handsome insect there was what I think was an Azure Hawker there too, smaller but brilliantly irredescent.

[nirofo]

Hi LIZZ

Was this the dragonfly that you saw, Golden-ringed Dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltonii)

Golden-ringed Dragonfly.
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o71/nirofo/Insects/Golden-ringedDragonfly.jpg

nirofo.

[Kenn]

No saddly the markings on that one are not the same nirofo.