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Wildlife Reports => Toronto Wildlife => Topic started by: JW Mills on August 10, 2011, 06:18:07 PM

Title: Dragonfly Hunting, Part 1
Post by: JW Mills on August 10, 2011, 06:18:07 PM

These pics were taken in late June, I finally got around to processing.
I believe I got the ID's correct.
ID's for 2 and 8 corrected as per input from Brian Bailey.
 
1. Twelve-spotted Skimmer
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/TwSp041_01x02.jpg)
 
2. Eastern Pondhawk
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/GrDr052x02.jpg)
 
3. Dot-tailed Whiteface
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/DotW037x03.jpg)
 
4. Dot-tailed Whiteface
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/DotW054x04.jpg)
5. Common Whitetail
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/CoWh019_02b02.jpg)
 
6. Common Whitetail
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/CoWh100_01x04.jpg)
 
7. Common Whitetail
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/CoWTw064x05.jpg)
 
8. Pronghorn Clubtail
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/Lanc008x01.jpg)
 
9. Blue Dasher
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/BDas019x03.jpg)
 
10. Blue Dasher
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/BDas053x06.jpg)
 
11. Blue Dasher
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Dragonflies/BDas031_01x05.jpg)

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Post by: newfoundlander61 on August 10, 2011, 06:52:23 PM

Beautiful variety. I bet it took a few hours in the field to get those. Nice work.

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Post by: MEGHAN on August 10, 2011, 07:35:10 PM

Love them all John, but #2 and #9 really stand out for me.

Meghan

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Post by: Moira on August 10, 2011, 09:21:42 PM

Excellent collection John!  You must be extremely patient :)

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Post by: BoboBird on August 11, 2011, 02:39:19 AM

Beautiful shots there John.

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Post by: JW Mills on August 12, 2011, 03:10:04 PM

Thanks everyone!
 
A little patience is indeed necessary for these guys, they see you before you see them and off they go!.
Even if they do co-operate the background usually sucks, but you take the shot anyway and hope for a better one next time!

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Post by: Rob'in'To on August 12, 2011, 10:18:45 PM

I love the angle on the last one.  And that Lancet Clubtail is pretty freakin' cool...  never seen one of those.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on August 19, 2011, 09:20:39 PM

Nice set John!

Something about that Green Darner was bothering me though.  It just didn't look right with the green extending so far down into the abdomen, but I couldn't think what else it could be.  :? Finally it hit me:  I think it's a young male Eastern Pondhawk who hasn't yet acquired all his blue.  Additional clues:  the white claspers and the horizontal perch. (Darners of all types generally perch vertically or near vertical.)

If I'm right it's a great capture.  That's not an often seen "plumage".

The other one I'm not so sure of is the Lancet Clubtail.  With the bright colours and almost all black S8 contrasting with the mostly bright yellow S9 & S10, it looks more like a Pronghorn Clubtail to me.  Again, if I'm right it's a much rarer find around S. Ontario. :)

BB

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Post by: JW Mills on August 20, 2011, 09:54:38 AM

Thanks Brian, for the kind words and the ID correction.