In 2024, I didn’t see any dragonflies in my orchard or yard until 15 July, exactly two months after I saw the first damselfly on 15 May, and the first one I saw was a golden-ringed dragonfly resting on some salvias near my back door.
Thanks, Angie! In my experience, golden-ringed dragonflies are a lot less skittish than hawkers, and let me get close up to them. I've lost count of how many times I've taken pics of empty space where a hawker dragonfly was a fraction of a second earlier, but it surely runs into hundreds. :-D
Great pics! Usually they take off the second I lift up my camera - this one was very obliging :-)
Thanks, Angie! In my experience, golden-ringed dragonflies are a lot less skittish than hawkers, and let me get close up to them. I've lost count of how many times I've taken pics of empty space where a hawker dragonfly was a fraction of a second earlier, but it surely runs into hundreds. :-D
Me too - definitely hundreds :-)
Wow! No wonder you gasped! She is a beauty. So trusting to let you touch her wing!
She was just incredible! It was so unexpected and so amazing to see her and to be allowed to touch her! <3