Dragonflies have taken over from the birds

The past 3 days have been a treat there are hundreds of dragonflies and damsels its strange how , even though there is only a few miles or a stretch of water to devide the species, on the http://egyptdragonflies.blogspot.com/ tuesdays dragons are from a walk to the east of Luxor  a place known as El gezira or Banana Island area

tuesdays dragons are from the west bank across the River, and todays are from an area  towards the airport. just 2 kilometers from my flat, the only species being the same are the orange and the black winged.

these  I will put on here as the first 2 species,

Black winged darter and a damselfly the damsel is common to all 3 areas  in Luxor,

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I also saw the following birds today  all I have photos of on Birding in Egypt

Crested Lark,  Hoopoe.  ring-necked plovers, white & cattle egrets,

3 falcons, and many of the smaller birds that are the first birds on the bird blog,

While having a cup of tea during making this blog I shot this spider

And  it's as big as a pin head,

Dragons in Macro

I am so busy catching up with writing my Biography and a new blog    http://nilelife4.blogspot
I was looking through my blogspot dragons and damsels for 2009, and came across these shots taken in macro  before I bought the ef 100x400 lens.  these shots where taken 6" from the subject Early in the morning while they were drowsy, with the canon efs 60mm ultrasonic lens  both subjects have been put on in a horizontal view  as they sleep in a vertical position