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AMBERWINGS

Eastern Amberwing, beauteous maximous	Eastern Amberwing showing off all four wings	Eastern Amberwing close up, what a face!
Eastern Amberwing keeping a close eye on my whereabouts	Eastern Amberwing pal male, beautiful hue	Eastern Amberwing male, one of my favorite pics lighting, color, and position wise.

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COMMMON WHITETAILS

Nothing common about its coloring, wowza!

I stalked him for about half an hour, does he look tired yet?

At rest on a log, looking like the best use of browns in nature

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DASHERS

Blue Dasher, such cool colored turquise eyes	Blue Dasher loooking the opposite of blue, again, what a face!	Blue Dasher with its distinct blue and black tipped tail, one of the easier ones to ID
Blue Dasher at NY Botanical gardens on a sign, he's the knockout though	Blue Dasher from my early bugging days, helped make me fall in love with photographing them	Blue Dasher in macro, wow, he has a thing mustache as well, haaa.
Blue Dasher backlit, measuring its height to me	Blue Dasher at rest

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GLIDERS

Wandering Glider, said ot be one fo the most populous dragonflies around, perhaps I have miss ID'd a few as meadowhawks?

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MEADOWHAWKS

Autumn Meadowhawk, love this shot, looks quite pleased to perch on my finger	Autumn Meadowhawk looking all shiny happy	Autumn Meadowhawk droopier wings but still cutest face this side of the pond
Autumn Meadowhawk, this lighting makes its wings look enormous	Autumn Meadowhawk wafting in the breeze	Autumn Meadowhawk or Yellow-legged Meadowhawk female :/
Autumn Meadowhawk or Yellow-legged Meadowhawk female :/	Autumn Meadowhawk or Yellow-legged Meadowhawk female :/	Autumn Meadowhawk or Yellow-legged Meadowhawk female :/
White-faced Meadowhawk is one cool looking dude, looks like its wearing dark goggles here.	White-faced Meadowhawk female still pretty cool looking as well	White-faced Meadowhawk up close and inquiring
White-faced Meadowhawk on my knee. It followed me around like a dog, got a great video of it posturing at me as well, click here.	White-faced Meadowhawk from top, check out teh intricate back musculature making it the top flier and inspiration for the helicopter I hear.	White-faced Meadowhawk just hangin'
White-faced Meadowhawk is really a white mouthed meadowhawk, silly namers.	Yellow-legged Meadowhawks mating. They look like the white faced but dont have the, erm, white face.	Yellow-legged Meadowhawks trio. I was trying to quietly wade in the pond, but this was as close as I could get, sigh.

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PENNANTS

Calico Pennant, female, gor-geous!!!!

Calico Pennant, male, hand-some!!!!

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SKIMMERS

Slaty Skimmer, I would call it Brilliant Blue Skimmer myself...	Spangled Skimmer, female. I suddenly feel patriotic.	Twelve-spotted Skimmer, used to be called ten-spotted but I guess someone couldn't count apparantly, sheesh...
Widow Skimmer, great coloring, burnt umber with a bit ot titanium white brushed softly on the sides?	Widow Skimmer immature male I believe, the abdomen still dark.	Widow Skimmer, female I believe, this angle makes her butt look fat, sorry, but it does.

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OTHERS

Dot-tailed White Face, see the dot on the tail? Otherwise the face looks like the white faced skimmer in dark blue, hope to see another.

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