Dragonfly Hunting, Part 1

[JW Mills]

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

 
2. Eastern Pondhawk

 
3. Dot-tailed Whiteface

 
4. Dot-tailed Whiteface

5. Common Whitetail

 
6. Common Whitetail

 
7. Common Whitetail

 
8. Pronghorn Clubtail

 
9. Blue Dasher

 
10. Blue Dasher

 
11. Blue Dasher

[newfoundlander61]

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

[MEGHAN]

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

Meghan

[Moira]

Excellent collection John!  You must be extremely patient

[BoboBird]

Beautiful shots there John.

[JW Mills]

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!

[Rob'in'To]

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

[Brian Bailey]

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

[JW Mills]

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