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Animals in motion are very difficult to photograph, especially insects and one that moves as fast and unpredictably as a dragonfly. They are such strange insects, living for 2-3 years as an ugly nymph and hardly any time at all as a colourful dragonfly. I found myself noticing how much energy they...
It has been a bit of a long week so I am looking forward to Monday off and getting out this weekend. I have been a bit grumpy and offish since last night. Two hurricanes (well Hanna is almost there) in the Atlantic basin tend to give everyone a bit of nerves - especially as one projected path had...
Yesterday was a long and intensive work day. I was on the phone from 10am to after 8pm with no more than a 3-4 minute break in between calls. ooooophhhhh. Today has been slightly calmer with paperwork and nice follow ups. The Fax machine has its knickers in a twist so I had an excuse to go up to the...
Earlier, I posted some pics of my hat. and of me in my hat. I was quite excited this afternoon to wear the hat and take my walk. My son tagged along but when he saw the hat, he said: Do I have to walk with you? hmmmm he apparently does NOT get his fashion sense from Mommy. So, off we went to see...
I will have a few pic intensive posts this week to share my pics from the weekend. I really had a blast. I was coming up through the field on Sunday - day two of sunburn, tromping through canal grass and a bit of mud and lots of stickers, etc...basically, I was sunburnt and filthy with a big grin. I...
Yesterday (Sunday), I spent about 2.5 hours along the canal snapping pictures and playing with settings. I took almost 150 pictures. These are some of my experimental shots where I was playing with different settings such as bright sunlight, backlight and some manual focus settings. Some came out re...
I woke up to sunny skies this morning so immediately got to it and packed my backpack and set off. I spent a total of about 3-4 hours in the field today. The evil bastard mowers were back, now in the pond area so the dragonflies are a bit displaced and I have noticed a big drop in the numbers but...
What a week! Between storms and rain and poor little kamikaze snails on my window and technical difficulties (thank you AT&Tand my dsl that has been running at dial up speed) and work - pheeeeew I am ready for the weekend! Hoping for some sunshine as there have not been any walks this week and wow -...
Due to the weather, there has not been many chances for walking or pics in the past few days but I have bunches that I have not shared so I picked a few to share. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!!!
Thanks for all the well wishes to everyone - thinks went pretty well as far as Tropical Storms go! Fay never quite achieved hurricane strength but she spun off some pretty fierce tornadoes to the north of me and there was tons of rain! My porch filled right to the door but the rain tapered off...
Adding in the new area and the pond really increases the distance and therefore my exercise! I went up to the pond this morning - I am still trying for a Roseate Skimmer! The water lilies emerged overnight... and as I was happily snapping the beautiful water lilies, I had a surprise when I uploaded...
I wanted to add the new finds to the list that I posted yesterday so I can keep track! my poor desktop is stacking up with folders to keep them all organized! All of these have been spotted here around my house. Additions today for the dragonflies are: Four Spotted Pennant Female Eastern Pondhawk -...
Yesterday was a fun day with visiting the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center and hanging in the pool with my munchkin and my three other favorite munchkins, my 2 nephews and my niece. We got back to my house in high spirits and dragged my brother out to see "Aunt Kim's dragonflies" so we could show him how...
OK - in an effort to get organized for myself, I wanted to list out the dragonflies and damselflies that I have photo documentation of so far: Seaside Dragonlet - Erythrodiplax berenice - female Little Blue Dragonlet - Erythrodiplax Miniscula - male Band Winged Dragonlet - Erthrodiplax Umbrata -...
I believe in timeouts for adults. I believe that adults need occasional mental health timeouts just to do something for the pure enjoyment of it. Today, after working in the morning, I went with my brother and his kids to Gumbo Limbo Nature Center just to walk on the Butterfly Trail. They had been...
Over the weekend, I was in an area near my home where some dragonflies were still cruising around and blackberries were finally getting ripe so I had to go back today. As soon as I got to the dragonfly spot, I pulled out my camera and waited for one to land but none of them would take a break. Being...
Yesterday I came home to a dragonfly, which had entered via the balcony and become disoriented. It had based itself in a windowless corner - or rather openingless, since the whole apartment is window - and periodically sallied out, zanting about the room in a panic, my daughter saying “he sure can...
This green guy - now identified as an Eastern Pondhawk - likes to hang in the bushes leading out to the field. I noticed that he tends to be low and now that I have identified, I found out that they hunt from very low to the ground. I have several pictures and several different Eastern Pondhawks....
Several days ago, I got a cool pic of a little orange dragonfly and I could not figure out how I had missed him before because now that I have noticed, I see several all the time. In my research travels was a great story about the Eastern Amberwings and how they will imitate a wasp and I realized...
My beautiful Princess Dragonfly is a girl! She is actually a Crocothemis Servilia and the males are bright red and the females are gold. I was googling for info and I ran across Bigma 's post about a Crocothemis Servilia Dragonfly (please see below) and she is a recent neighbor and has a phenomenal...
