possible male blue-eyed darner
possible Rhionaeshna multicolor
This post is for Graeme at Imperfect and tense for our friendly blogging Odonatathon wager across the pond (so to speak) to see who spots the latest in the season for 2012. As of this date, I have him beat by 1 day. My last sightings in 2011 were December 10 at Los Padres Dam (sorry, no pictures). His last sighting in 2011 was November 27 at HESC, although he says someone else saw the same dragon there December 5.
This is also a tester post. I've never edited or posted a video before. It took me a while to figure out how to stabilize and trim the above crappy clip in iMovie. Google's automatic file reduction makes the video play even worse on the blog. Oh well. For both the video and heavily cropped picture above, we tried out a spanking new borrowed point-and-shoot Canon (don't know which one) in a search to upgrade from our crappy photo point-and-shoot Minolta. While I kind of like the larger file sizes to crop, the touch screen focus features of the Canon did not work at all for close-up shots, even in the macro setting. Our trusty 8-year-old Minolta still seems to do a better job. So, our search continues. For now, I will remain green with envy at the patience and gorgeous dragonfly photo captures other people manage to get with seeming ease.
ps - Oooh, interesting. The video doesn't show up in Reader. Hmm?
ps - Oooh, interesting. The video doesn't show up in Reader. Hmm?