The Dragonflies of Ohio
A friend of mine from England, Warren of Pittswood Birds asked me how many dragonflies we have in Ohio. With some help from Tom at Ohio Nature who gave me a list of 159 Dragonflies. Here are a few I have captured lately and where I found them. They are all beautiful and distinctive.
This is one from home near my garden.
I found this one at a pond on a golf course.
This is from the same pond on the same day.
This is from a little pond on the way to work.
This was at the back of our property.
This is a damselfly but I threw it in.
This is my latest capture from the Kent Bog. I will doing a post on the Bog this week.
51 comments:
lovely truly lovely - like your blogging explanation as well.
What a lovely variety you have and no doubles from mine.. yours is a great post. I think dragonflies are neat!!
ann
They are all beautiful I like dragon flies they are very curious.
GREAT photos! I LOVE photographing and viewing the different dragonflies, and if I see one that is new to me, I get REALLY excited ;-)
These are spectacular shots. I think, if I'm not mistaken, the one with the yellow stripe is a female to the male one with blue on it's wings. They are called Blue Dashers, I believe... but, I may be confusing them again.
Love these dragonflies ... they chomp down all the mosquitoes that they can find. This year we are seeing lots of them and I am glad because there seem to be millions of those little blood thirsty mosquitoes here! Great shots!
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I love dragonflies! Those were great shots!
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159! Really! I had no idea there could be that many. They are so very beautiful. Your pictures are wonderful.
Great dragon flies. I had one up last week!
they are a beautiful photos! great shots
graet close up shots!
Dragonflies are so lovely! I was terrified of them as a kid and could not be convinced that they weren't in cahoots with green horseflies. I always pictured them biting out hunks of my skin like those nasty horseflies.
Of course, now I love them.
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Great shots! I have to worst luck photographing dragonflies. I need me a new camera with better zoom, so I can sneak up on them without them knowing it.
Your dragonflies are indeed beautiful! You have an eye for beauty. You have captured them well. Your camera works wonderfully!
Seems you had a great day - brought back a lot of good shots! Bravo!
Cheers, Klaus
Just stunning... dragonflies are so amazing! Those big ones can bite, though, and leave a heck of a welt!
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Nice dragons and terrific photos.
Thanks for the visit.
Troy
They are amazing little and beautiful critters.
Those are superb photos! Thanks for sharing.
hese really are beasutiful captures of muche underated creatures.
A beautiful series.
My grandmother used to call dragonflies,"snake feeders or snake doctors" and she said that if you were bitten by one you would die.
They supposedly fed injured or ill snakes.
I guess that was another folk tale, as I never heard of one biting anyone.
that's a cute one.. i haven't seen any dragon fly here in NY hahaha.. maybe because i don't go out of the house..
thanks for sharing this, and the visit and comment to my page... love the first music here too. its a jolly one...
happy weekend...
Wow, you really caught a lot of them! I saw ONE a few days ago and that was the first one I've seen in ages.
Beautiful captures , all of them!I guess you tip toed to get them.
Such delicate and beautiful creatures. Your photos are lovely.
Hey Fish
I was here to see their great photos and wish you a great week.
A handsome fella.
I have shots very similar to #2 and #3. I love taking pictures of dragons! 159 varieties...my, my...no wonder I can't name them :-)
You asked about sitemeter. I just deleted it off my blog because I didn't know what else to do. I think they must have fixed whatever was wrong after that.
thanks for the comment - yes, mine was also a dragonfly, and i've been in greece long enough to have forgotten their english name!
thanks for the comment - yes, mine was also a dragonfly, and i've been in greece long enough to have forgotten their english name!
and let's fact it, your dragonflies in the photos are pretty much incredible!
Great captures of this bugger.
Some great captures of Dragon flies there fishing guy! Like the first one best. I replied to your email on the dragonfly list you sent me. Did it go to you, or your friend ? It was meant for you anyway!
Dragonfly hunting and fishing seem to go together very well! I LOVE hunting for dragonflies and damselfies!
I just love dragon flys but couldn't tell you their names to save my life. I do know we have some pretty blue ones. :-) Great photo FG, you must have had to work for these ones.
wunderful details and images, very well done.
Dragonflies are amazing, aren't they? Nice capture.
159 Species! - that would be a goal to have a photo of each one. I love their beautiful wings, and you've done a marvelous job in capturing these fantastic creatures.
These are spectacular! Shots like these make me appreciate your lovely comments even more. Thank you.
Nothing like watching dragon flies for entertainment when you are cane pole fishing at the pond. Great shots. Pappy
Neat dragonflies. I use to love to watch them as a child. They always seemed magical to me.
Hello my friend one more magnificent series of "The dragonflies of Ohio" that are magnificent congratulations on publication
Nice variety of odonata. One hundred and fifty-nine species? That's a good number of different critters. There's like 88 total both damselflies and dragonflies in Oregon, and only about 50 or so in the county I live in (Deschutes).
I love the black one with the gold stripe. I have the one with the striped wings at my pond too, but it hasn't deigned to pose for me.
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We don’t see dragonflies of any kind here in So Cal by the beach so I really enjoyed all of these.
Hugs and blessings,
Very beautiful.
Fishing guy, what a magnificent collection of dragon flies. Beautiful captures! Who new there were so many different kinds? :)
claps! beautiful capture and well-captioned. thank you for sharing your stories. :)
Love your dragonfly captures!!
Interesting post with perfect photos. I love their bi-plane effect and especially like those smaller blue ones.
Thanks for sharing!
What a wonderful variety of dragonflies!
Love the dragonflies. You did good!
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