While looking through our pictures of warmer days, I came across some that my son had taken last summer when my daughter still lived here. We had spent a weekend at the lake, and one afternoon while we were out on our boat, we had a visitor come aboard. A very prehistoric looking dragonfly. As you can see from the first photograph, he's much bigger than the other two "normal" size dragonflies! He sat for a while at the edge of the boat and then flew away, only to come back with his lunch... a good size bug! He perched himself on one of the fishing poles and proceeded to eat his entire meal. The activity on the boat (including our dog) didn't phase him one bit. He took his time eating, and my son got pretty close to him to take these pictures. At one point my daughter held up her hand to give some
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Here's a link to read all about these very interesting dragonflies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonhunter
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ♥Wishing you a wonderful day! ~Trina
That is one amazing dragonfly and it's colors are so brilliant. What great shots these are.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is amazing looking, isn't it?!
ReplyDeleteI remember you showing me those photos when we were there - so glad you blogged them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Diane... So interesting, thought everyone would like to see the pics and read about them.
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