Two Firsts

On my way home from Chattanooga, I stopped briefly at Marion County Park on Nicajack Lake, a favorite spot for Odonate hunting, and today the site of two firsts.

1. I spied my first Rambur's Forktail of the year! Unfortunately, he a female Eastern Pondhawk's lunch.
   
   
   
   
2. I watched a Black Saddlebags hawk and perch, hawk and perch, hawk and perch, till finally he lit on a branch and stayed there. I took my first ever decent perching photos of the beautiful dragonfly, typically a swift and constant flier.

Sometimes it pays to get off the mountain.