While I was out this afternoon I spotted my first dragonflies of the year. I spotted over a half a dozen green darners patrolling the water...

This summer I have been spending a lot of time participating in events sponsored by the Minnesota Odonato Survey Project . MOSP is a small...

Last week I spotted my first dragonflies of 2010. They were green darners of course. Some green darner dragonflies actually migrate south, ...

When I began this blog my subjects were mainly birds with a few mammals that I photographed mainly while we were on vacation. After a while...

Once in a while you get lucky and find one of the larger dragonflies shortly afer it has emerged. At this point in their life cycle they us...

I spent most of today volunteering at Hawk Ridge up in Duluth, MN. As always I brought my cameras with and got some fun pics but for those y...

On April 21st I stopped at Dodge Nature Center on my way home from work to do some birding and take some pics. I did get some bird pics, wh...

Sunday morning (Oct 7) it was still sunny out so I headed out to the Black Dog Unit of the Minnesota Valley NWR . I parked at the River Hil...

On my last trip to Crex Meadows I photographed a few interesting things that were not birds. First I found this banded woolly bear caterp...

Yesterday it was a beautiful day so I decided to visit Wood Lake Nature Center after work. It is hard to believe that it is already Octobe...

On Sunday July 29th I shot this picture of a female green darner dragonfly at the Blackdog unit of the Minnesota Valley NWR. Green darner a...