Dragonfly ID PLEASE

[Billhook]

Never seen one of these before here, or anywhere for that matter

Quite a big boy or girl

[Mick Dempsey]

Wide bodied chaser, meebees.

[Paul in the woods]

Funnily enough I saw my first dragonfly of the year this morning and it was very similar. As Mick says, possibly a broad chaser lady - https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/broad-bodied-chaser

[Billhook]

1 hour ago, Paul in the woods said:

Funnily enough I saw my first dragonfly of the year this morning and it was very similar. As Mick says, possibly a broad chaser lady - https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/broad-bodied-chaser

Well done you two!   She was a vivid yellow rather than golden brown but the lighter spots down the side are there.

I have seen plenty of the males but this is the first female, they are so different that I would have thought they were a separate species.