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On my first trip to the Rowlett Creek Nature Preserve there were lots of dragonflies and damselflies. Including this beautiful neon skimmer. Only the 3rd I've seen. Always makes me wish I had brought sunglasses with me.
Male Neon Skimmer (Libellula croceipennis)
Rowlett Creek Nature Preserve
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Day 287/365; Week 41 Theme: Nature's splendour (Oct 10-Oct 16)
The day before I took a shot of an eastern pondhawk and wondered if it would be my last dragonfly shot of the year. So this lovely meadowhawk showed up to give me another. This is my third "red" individual this year, more than I usually see. Whether it's three species or just two, I don't know--I'm not an expert with the pondhawks. But I think this one is thinner and suspect it's a second species of pondhawk and thus a third red species in one year.
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Common Darter #Dragonfly at #wickenfen in Cambridgeshire 1st October 2022
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The same aka tonbo (red dragonfly) only different angle.
Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, FL
From the archives...
It was very breezy, I didn't have a macro lens and shooting these skittish guys is anything but easy - I don't have the MrClean charm. But funnily enough, although they didn't stay still very long, they always seemed to come back to the same place... at least once in a while. So you just had to wait and hope that the blade of grass they were holding on to didn't move too much. And then, of course, there was the issue that the dragonfly might be right in front of your nose, I mean lens, but you only got the butt of it to see...
View the dragon large on black.
Nothing says red like a male neon skimmer. The trick to photographing them is to see his favorite perch, position yourself near it & wait patiently for him to return.
Male Neon Skimmer (Libellula croceipennis)
White Rock Lake, Dallas Texas
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
Taking a break from the hummingbirds to get another dragon fly shot. Been a good summer for me with the dragon flies, this is the third one since getting my new mark IV body a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure what this one's story is but it would repeatedly take flight for a second or two and then land on the stick. It allowed me to approach it without spooking and remained on the stick until long after I had gotten a couple of dozen shots of it.
Birds abound at the Reifel Sanctuary but no surprise insects do too. Minolta 75-300 4.5-5.6 D Macro Zoom @ ISO100 f5.6 1/320
Looking at a dragonfly from the side always makes me smile. They look like they are smiling.
Male Neon Skimmer (Libellula croceipennis)
White Rock Lake, Dallas Texas
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
I swear this guy has been eating fireflies, he was positively glowing. They are fairly easy to photograph, just stand by their favorite perch & wait for them to come back.
Male Neon Skimmer (Libellula croceipennis)
Rowlett Creek Nature Preserve, Garland Texas
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
Dragonfly, Long Key Nature Center and Natural Area, Davie, FL
The power of 21 MP shows as you can't get too close to your subject with the Bigma. At 500 mm the minimum focusing distance is about 10 feet. I even had to zoom out a bit to be able to focus (or I could have stepped back, but zooming out was quicker).
Love the red colors.
I am not sure about the ID of this fellow, though, maybe a Needham's Skimmer (Libellula needhami)? Male?
In Japan, seeing a red dragonfly (akatonbo) means fall is very close. I have seen several in August and this is the first good picture I have of one this year. It was on a concrete stand for vending machines near a bank in downtown Kitahiroshima. Dragonflies seem to be very brave around humans (or stupid).
This is a portrait of the 2nd neon skimmer. It's twig was hanging over the water so I could only shoot from one side. It was nice enough to hold still. Looks like it is smiling & saying cheese.
Male Neon Skimmer (Libellula croceipennis)
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
Orange-winged Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi) is a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae. It is found in Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. It is also common in southern Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean Islands and South Asia - India. It is also known as the Kirby's Dropwing.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, rivers, and inland karsts.
Source: Wikipedia.
Taken during a short trip to Sonargaon. Thanks everyone for watching and your comments are always appreciated!!
A straight-on view of a dragonfly resting on a closed Daylily flower... I like its facial 'smile' and that bright red abdomen at the back!
Please enlarge for the best view of this attractive little critter!
This little guy was quite the poser. I got this shot looking upwards at the dragonfly perched high up on a tule. Somehow his face looks martian to me.
EASTERN PYGMYFLY (Nannophya dalei) is a diminutive red dragonfly with a crimson tail that resembles a red-hot poker, the eastern pygmyfly inhabits boggy seepages and swamps.
It's been a while since my last post, I been very busy, now I will spend more time in Flickr and hope that can catch all your wonderful photos.
Have a great week my friends.
DSC_8077_edit: As seen this morning in downtown Moncton. These world famous surfers got to ride the super moon tidal bore wave up the Petitcodiac River.
The tidal bore is caused by the Bay of Fundy tides - twice a day every day, some of the highest tides in the world surge up the Bay and cause the tidal rivers to back up. During the super moon, the waves get higher than usual.