Some more odonates :-)

[holyschist]

And then I will stop spamming the comm! I am just enjoying having all these cooperative odonates right out my back door.

The spreadwings were still around today, but there were also some darners and a bunch of Striped Meadowhawks (Sympetrum pallipes), handily enough one of the meadowhawk species that can sometimes be confidently identified without capturing them.



This shot isn't quite perfect, but I thought it was kind of cool--I wasn't trying to get an action shot, but there it was when I took the photos off my camera:



Although they are hard to identify, meadowhawks are one of my favorite groups of odonates--they are so bright and beautiful! These were pretty fierce, too--despite being less than half the size of the darner (and hence possibly a potential meal for the darner), a few of them would chase the darner around, harassing it.

More photos (and a bad shot of that frustrating darner) at my journal.

Comments

[rainbow]

oh, lovely!!! ♥

[holyschist]

Thank you!