Dragonflies and Damselflies

[P-visie]

"But if one interprets the dropwing as a flag or banner, the stick could be important as well" -yeah, only that it's neither of them...
Great catch and nice photo! BTW right now I'm going to find "ObsIdentify" app.! It seems to be able to drastically shorten my headache problems when trying to ID dragons!

From the ObsIdentify website:
“In which countries can I use ObsIdentify?
ObsIdentify is available for download in almost every country in Europe. The image recognition contains species out of the whole of Europe, but not every species that occurs in Europe is part of the image recognition model.”.

See: https://waarneming.nl/pages/faq-obsidentify/

 

[ISv]

From the ObsIdentify website:
“In which countries can I use ObsIdentify?
ObsIdentify is available for download in almost every country in Europe. The image recognition contains species out of the whole of Europe, but not every species that occurs in Europe is part of the image recognition model.”.

See: https://waarneming.nl/pages/faq-obsidentify/

Thanks! Even if it helps only in my vacations in Europe it would be a help...

 

[AlanF]

"But if one interprets the dropwing as a flag or banner, the stick could be important as well" -yeah, only that it's neither of them...
Great catch and nice photo! BTW right now I'm going to find "ObsIdentify" app.! It seems to be able to drastically shorten my headache problems when trying to ID dragons!

it's also better for birds.

 

[AlanF]

Went out on a Banded Demoiselle hunt with the trusty R5ii and RF 100-500mm, my favourite gear for the safari. A perched male, one flying and a female.

 

[AlanF]

I couldn't resist making an animated gif.

 

[Click]

Went out on a Banded Demoiselle hunt with the trusty R5ii and RF 100-500mm, my favourite gear for the safari. A perched male, one flying and a female.

Excellent series, Alan.

 

[ISv]

it's also better for birds.

I don't use apps for the birds. It doesn't mean I can ID easily any bird but using literature is advancing my knowledge. On other hand in the case of birds that I don't know it will give me fast starting point to deep into the literature.
Insects, plants e.t.c. are different story and it's time to find an app...

 

[brianhig]

I caught this red damsel fly a couple of weeks ago on a rainy day. I was using an R5 Mk ii with the 100-500mm RF lens - a really great lens

 

[Click]

Nice photo. Welcome to CR.

 

[AlanF]

A good day yesterday. Four-spot chaser and Emperor in Flight (R5ii and RF 100-500mm).

 

[AlanF]

My first Scarce Chaser of the year.

 

[AlanF]

And, most excitingly, a Norfolk (Green-eyed) Hawker, which is very rare here.

 

[Click]

Beautiful shots, Alan.

 

[koenkooi]

The damselfly larvae in my mini pond have started crawling out!

https://flic.kr/p/2rdjdLf

https://flic.kr/p/2rdjep4

https://flic.kr/p/2rdkhU1

https://flic.kr/p/2rdkSdS

I find it amazing how they go from nearly transparent to fully coloured. Watching the wings unfold is mesmerizing as well.

R5II+RF100L and the later in the session an EL-5. 1800 shots in 2 hours, took a while to sort through edit!

And this damselfly didn’t get snatched by a sparrow a meter into its first flight, yay!

 

[AlanF]

The damselfly larvae in my mini pond have started crawling out!

https://flic.kr/p/2rdjdLf

https://flic.kr/p/2rdjep4

https://flic.kr/p/2rdkhU1

https://flic.kr/p/2rdkSdS

I find it amazing how they go from nearly transparent to fully coloured. Watching the wings unfold is mesmerizing as well.

R5II+RF100L and the later in the session an EL-5. 1800 shots in 2 hours, took a while to sort through edit!

And this damselfly didn’t get snatched by a sparrow a meter into its first flight, yay!

I had been toying with digging a pond, and wish I had after seeing your images!

 

[Click]

Very nice close-up shots, koenkooi.

 

[koenkooi]

I had been toying with digging a pond, and wish I had after seeing your images!

This is a 100-ish liter one, to try and see how we’d like having a pond. I get the impression that it’s a bit too small to be completely self regulating, but so far the positives massively outweigh the negatives.

Using a preformed plastic shell is emphatically not less work than using pondliner, the hole has to perfectly match the shape to avoid distortion, which will manifest as one side being a few inches taller than the other.

Here’s a handheld focus stack of a damselfly crawling out of the water, but still in its larval shell:

https://flic.kr/p/2rdkjt8

Another lesson learned: avoid moving water in focus stacks

 

[Noreaster]

 

[Click]

Pretty cool shot. I really like the short DOF.