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Photography => Nature => Topic started by: paul_reeves on September 30, 2014, 07:04:38 PM

Title: Dragonfly Help Please
Post by: paul_reeves on September 30, 2014, 07:04:38 PM

I got this dragonfly in Algonquin on September 27th. Searching my Dragonfly book I can narrow it down to a few species of Darner but other than that I haven't got a clue.

(http://www.paulreeves.ca/images/nature/insects/dragonflies/shadow_darner_dragonfly/shadow_darner_dragonfly_0642.jpg)

TIA.

Paul

Title: Re: Dragonfly Help Please
Post by: Reuven_M on October 01, 2014, 04:25:18 PM

With those thin thoracic stripes it can only be a Shadow Darner

Title: Re: Dragonfly Help Please
Post by: paul_reeves on October 01, 2014, 04:31:16 PM

Thanks Reuven.

And three years ago I thought birds were tough to identify.

Title: Re: Dragonfly Help Please
Post by: gary yankech on October 03, 2014, 07:26:28 PM

Yes....this would be a Shadow Darner. I took similar shots recently up in Bracebridge, but yours is much clearer.  I always had him from behind, he never gave me another angle to shoot.