Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Nature => Topic started by: Shortsighted on September 04, 2024, 10:58:15 AM
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Not everything that moves across the expanse of my peripheral vision is a bird. There are dragonflies everywhere darting through the air and seldom landing as far as I can see. I caught one Green darner this morning. Took a shot from where I was standing, but when I tried to align myself better it immediately took flight again.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-vk6r2bJ/0/KbxtggkJjNNs8G9hdfQdfjs9ThCB7xB2TGRr9wwHW/L/4%2CGreen%20Darner-L.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-vk6r2bJ/A)
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Nice shot. A green darner showed up in our small urban downtown backyard last year, of all places.
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There are so many of them this year that I'm quite sure you would drop a dozen of them if you randomly discharged a shotgun. Not that I have a shotgun. I used to have a water pistol. Come to think about it, I think a powerful water pistol could slow a few of them down. Oh my, what have I done? I might have given someone an idea for a video that could go viral. All I'm saying is that they are all over the park, flying in every direction, so I wouldn't want to swing a tennis racket too fast. Who's serve is it anyway?
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I certainly hope no one shoots them.
As a kid, I caught dragonflies in a butterfly net. They have very powerful jaws, as I discovered trying to untangle one from my net. After that, I was happy to let them fly free without closer examination.