The first four photos were taken at Fish Hatchery park (in Farmington I think?) sometime in July. I was there looking for Dragonhunters and was unsuccessful over two visits. Even with Ebony Jewelwings as one of their favorite prey, and there were plenty of jewelwings along the river, not a single dragonhunter showed up.
The last three photos were taken at one of the ponds along Hines Drive.
Ebony Jewelwing
Male Widow Skimmer; common, beautiful and easy to photograph.
Above and below female Widow Skimmer
Male Halloween Pennant; also beautiful and easy to photograph.
Male Eastern Pondhawk; depending upon location, can be overwhelming common.
The damselfly above cannot be identified in this photo and I should probably delete. But no harm in keeping and it reveals the difficulty of damsel identification. This, likely teneral, damsel would need to be in the hand to ID.
Above and below: Thrilling to find a Banded Hairstreak (Satyrium calanus) on the rocks at Fish Hatchery park.
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