3 damselflies

[turbotoes]

A wander down a local farm track the other day got me these lovelies.

First up the Banded demoiselle, My first sighting of this fella in 5 years back in the UK....

Banded Demoiselle male 05-01 sm by Tara Rerrie, on Flickr

An Azure male.

Azure damselfly male 05-03 by Tara Rerrie, on Flickr

Pretending to be a spreadwing..

Azure damselfly male 05-04 by Tara Rerrie, on Flickr

Large red male
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Large Red Dameselfly male 05-03 by Tara Rerrie, on Flickr

large red female.

Large Red Dameselfly Female 05-01 by Tara Rerrie, on Flickr

All R7 and RF 100-500 handheld.

Thanks for looking.

 

[welshwizard645]

Splendid!

 

[Norkie]

Beautiful

 

[Micro-four-thirds]

Great shots, thanks for sharing

 

[Graham]

All lovely shots Tara, I use the Nikon Z8 and 100-400 S lens for all my Butterfly and whatever I see now and my macro lens for anything smaller.

 

[davholla]

Very nice I have only seen one this year.

 

[turbotoes]

All lovely shots Tara, I use the Nikon Z8 and 100-400 S lens for all my Butterfly and whatever I see now and my macro lens for anything smaller.

Previously my go to was the venerable Canon EF 300mm F4 IS + 1.4tc plus whatever body I was using at the time, I did have a macro lens but sold it as it got very little use. French bugs were too flighty for me to get near enough, thought about replacing it a while ago but now, I'm not sure there's a point this set up is good enough for me.

 

[cruso]

A great set Tara

 

[LCPete]

Real nice set the open wing shot is superb they don’t very often pose with open wings