Well, the warm weather has done its job and the dragonflies are beginning to emerge. I saw my first damselfly in the garden at the weekend (no photo, wrong lens etc… \ud83d\ude09 ), but had more luck today when I headed over to the dew pond at work only to come face to face with someone else sporting a 100-400mm lens! It's somewhat of a relief to not be the only camera-nut around the place. He was after dragonflies, and sure enough a couple of male broad-bodied chasers were about. I don't recall when I first spotted them last year, but I don't think it was as early and 2008 proved relatively quiet, so the early sighting this year is very positive. <\/p>\n
The real fun will begin when the females are egg-laying and the chance of 'in-flight' shots increase, but today I made do with a static shot when one of the pair finally decided to rest up for a moment. I'd switched lenses by then and took this with the 105mm macro lens.<\/p>\n
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