I tried, with moderate success, to get sharp pictures of some dragonflies on my recent visit to Penitentiary Glen Reservation. There were dragons galore, constantly on the move, swooping over the pond, and flitting from place to place, always lighting some place new, only to lift off when I turned my lens toward them. They …
‘Tis the season
In my photographer's mind, summer is the season for photographing dragonflies as they skim through the air over ponds and rivers, but this is what I read when I looked up dragonfly in the dictionary in preparation for writing this post: drag·on·fly ˈdraɡənˌflī/ noun plural noun: dragonflies a fast-flying long-bodied predatory insect with two pairs of large transparent wings that …
Dragonflies, damselflies, and birds, oh my!
Variable dancers
An Eastern pond hawk, posing perfectly! (I don’t know who comes up with the names, but I love them!)
The blue dasher dragonflies were dashing around everywhere!
female redwing blackbird
Blue dasher dragonfly
Blue dasher, a common dragonfly, according to Roz.
bee of some sort
Eastern amber wing
song sparrow
An eastern amber wing
northern cardinal
Blue dasher dragonfly
female redwing
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 