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| Letsgodiving |
Some recent crittersSometimes the big guys aren't very cooperative so I take what I can get. I actually enjoy catching the odd dragonfly.Eastern Fence Lizard 
Fowlers Toad 
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| uncle aj |
Great pictures Mike. I have a book on dragonflies somewhere in the house and should be able to identify them as long as they occur in Europe. I think the last one is a clubtail but I need to find the book first. 
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| uncle aj |
Well I found my book but I'm sorry I could not pin them down, no pun intended.
The first looks like some kind of darter, the nearest I could come up with is common darter. The second is puzzling, I could not find a match in my book, the nearest I could find was blue dasher. The last one looks like a hooktail. Sorry I can't be more helpful but birds are my area of expertise. 
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| Letsgodiving |
Thanks Adrian! I was wondering about the ID on these guys. I'll need to get a book. I'll check Amazon. They are fun to photograph but I'm still trying to get one in flight. Thanks again for the help. | ||||
| uncle aj |
Yes it would be nice to get some flight shots, I must admit, I've tried and failed. There's a guy who is visiting Saudi next week who I'm taking out to show him some birds. He has a website with quite a few dragonfly flight shots, here's the link. Steven Burch's Site |
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| Tools |
Great shots.....
Quite a variety............
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| Letsgodiving |
A nice site he has there. It's definitely tough to catch them when they are darting around but he has a couple of really nice shots of them in flight. They tend to hover in the same place for a couple of seconds but they are still too fast for me. I'm heading out to an area tomorrow that should have some so I'll give it another try.
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| Letsgodiving |
Thanks Larry. 
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