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Australian Tiger and Blue Skimmer

Started Mar 28, 2016 | Photos thread
vass
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Re: Australian Tiger and Blue Skimmer

WGHalvorsen wrote:

Vas, pardon my ignorance, but do you do something special to attract the dragon flies to the stick? Fantastic photos, BTW!

/Bill

Not at all, everything I shoot is free and with minimal disruptance. I like to capture everything in it's natural environment and natural life. Shooting birds on a feeder attracting insects is just not for me as I love to capture the moment naturally.

The dragonflies will land on certain perches, the tiger especially and its gets buzzed off by other dragonflies but returns to the same perch after chasing them off but not always. I locked on twice just before it got back to the perch as I was expecting it there but I did mnage a good mid flight of it too.

The Blue Skimmer same story this time but it did change perches, it's pretty obvious where it is too land but my favourite of it is the head on about 1.5 from the perch it landed after.

Some of the other dragonflies I shot in earlier threads like the Blue-spotted hawker, Australian Emperor and especially the Australian Emerald (my favourite) do not perch much at all in the day. The Australian emperor I have only seen perched 2 times since I started shooting them. 99% of the time it will never stop flying.

Thank you

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