The Bluest Eyes - _TNY_4169
My mother-in-law's garden pond isn'tt particularily big - but it sure has a lot of interestig life in it. I've seen more than ten species of dragonflies and damsels in it, frogs and toads of course and this year, the smooth newts came back there and mated - even if this should be too small a body of water for them.
This year I noticed a species of damsel I haven't seen around the pond before - the common spreadwing (Lestes sponsa), also known as the emerald damselfly.
Here is a male which was clinging to a reed a bit out in the pond. I shot this on my knees on the rocks next to the pond, the left hand on the (hilariously slippery) bottom of the pond and the camera in my right hand stretched out as far as I could reach to get as close as possible.
The Bluest Eyes - _TNY_4169
My mother-in-law's garden pond isn'tt particularily big - but it sure has a lot of interestig life in it. I've seen more than ten species of dragonflies and damsels in it, frogs and toads of course and this year, the smooth newts came back there and mated - even if this should be too small a body of water for them.
This year I noticed a species of damsel I haven't seen around the pond before - the common spreadwing (Lestes sponsa), also known as the emerald damselfly.
Here is a male which was clinging to a reed a bit out in the pond. I shot this on my knees on the rocks next to the pond, the left hand on the (hilariously slippery) bottom of the pond and the camera in my right hand stretched out as far as I could reach to get as close as possible.