In the summer, we simply have whole BATCHES of these guys flying around overhead. We can sit on the deck and watch them go over our heads like air-traffic controllers. By this time, though, not so much. This is the last one I've seen around. The cats caught him, and I got him away from them, only to have them catch him again. I couldn't find him after that, so I thought they ate him, but then I saw him a few minutes later, flying right past me. Guess he got away himself.
He is one cool customer, all right.
This past summer was the first I've ever experienced this. I was out mowing the pasture grass close to sunset and looked up to see a swarm of drangonflies overhead. It was amazing, I think the lawnmower scared them out of the tall grass. I only wished I had a camera, it was quite something to see.
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