I've been keeping my eyes open for odonates (damselflies and dragonflies) lately. So far I've only seen a couple of species. There were common baskettails flying in the yard a few days ago. They declined to be photographed.
This fragile forktail was only slightly more cooperative. At least I was able to get enough of a shot to ID the little critter. You may be able to see the little exclamation mark on its shoulder (click to embiggen). That's diagnostic for this species.
I was able to get several shots of one particular dragonfly that happened by at work yesterday. It was much more cooperative than the other odes...
This particular dragonfly is a solar electric hybrid on its way back to PA where it will complete a 6500 mile journey that began last June. The captain told me he was getting about 65% of his power from the sun. Not too shabby.
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They were around here most of the winter, until we experienced an uncommon arctic blast, and I haven't seen any since. I don't know if the weather is the reason or not, since I'm not familiar with S. TX. But the butterflies...oh, my!
Wow,that's really neat. And here she is!
http://www.slowboatcruise.com/p/about-our-boat.html
Ellen,
I thought the boat was pretty interesting. Nice and quiet, too!
Wren,
Thanks for the link!
As it's still too cold up here for odonates, I fixed on the my-favorite-color-blue boat with the great name! *lol*
That boat is quite wonderful. So nice it's not polluting the environment it's exploring.... well at least not much. ;-)
Sybil
Eastern Passage, NS
Great readd thankyou
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