Monday, October 31, 2011

Trick or

TREAT!

Spotted a new (to me) dragonfly today at Lake Cheston: the Blue-faced Meadowhawk (Sympetrum ambiguum).  At first I didn't believe what I saw: blue eyes, white face, gray-blue thorax, dark brown-black and yellow stripes on the red abdomen, yellow underneath.  I kept snapping, and he kept letting me.

I watched him prepare the sperm packet, grab a female, alight in the grass, on the concrete, and then on my too-white shoe.  Alas, no sharp photo of the female, but now I know where they are.

I shall return.

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