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Eastern Pondhawk
While photographing wildflowers a couple of mornings ago, I ran across an interesting dragonfly, the Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis). I’ve also seen reference to these dragonflies as Green Clearwings. First, here are a few images I captured in my wildflower garden (on Gray-headed Coneflowers), then I’ll follow up with a few interesting facts about these […]
A Dew-covered Start
A short break from my recent road trip, while I keep busy downloading images and editing them :o) Yesterday morning, I made a trip to the nearby natural prairie to see what has changed since my last visit, almost 5 weeks ago. As I started my hike across the prairie, I saw this cute little […]
Fun Friday: Dragonfly Gymnastics
Today’s Fun Friday post features a lovable Low-flying Amber-wing dragonflies that have been busy on the prairie meadow. I featured some images of this little guy once before, but this pose gave me a chuckle when I captured his “gymnastics handstand”, and I just had to feature it in a Fun Friday post: My posts […]
Green Darner
While hiking the prairie this past week, we saw a couple of Green Darners (Anax junius) that were in the upper prairie meadow. The Green Darner is also know as “Snake Doctor”, or “Darning Needle”: Their normal habitat is near slow streams and ponds. On this prairie, there is a small pond, but it is […]
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Tags: behavior, Blog, Cass County, Dorsett Hill Prairie, dragonfly, insect, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, summer
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Fun Friday: And Now … the Rest of the Story
While photographing on the prairie the other morning, I came upon a Low-flying Amber-wing (Perithemis tenera) that landed on a dead twig. I carefully set up my tripod and captured a series of images. Here is one from that set of images: After capturing a few images (with the camera’s viewfinder still at my eye), […]
Beautiful Amber-wing
While photographing some dragonflies the other morning, in one of my rural Missouri home gardens, a single Low-flying Amber-wing (Perithemis tenera) landed on a nearby plant. Carefully and slowly, I positioned my tripod so that I could grab a few images of this winged beauty. Here are a couple of my favorite images: Photography Equipment […]
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Tags: behavior, Blog, Cass County, cute, dragonfly, insect, macro photography, Missouri, nature, nature photography, spring
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