Late yesterday afternoon, I headed down to the beaver swamp behind the house just to see what was up… I’d been inside working for much of the day and could not resist the beautiful weather anymore.
The usual suspects were all to be found… darners which never seem to land (and thus I have no photos of), meadowhawks and spreadwings.
I spent some time (about a half an hour according to the EXIF data) watching and photographing a single meadowhawk. I first noticed it perched in good light and with a good background. I maneuvered to get so that it was facing me and sat down. It was not too wet!
This fellow was clearly hunting. He kept making brief forays from his perch and kept returning to the perch in the same orientation. I made a number of portraits as I waited hoping to get the photograph that never came… “meadowhawk with prey” was to be the title!
Actually this fellow was quite a good hunter. It was just that the prey were very small, very light tan insects. They (the prey) were mostly gone and not very visible by the time my “friend” got pack to his perch. Heavy sigh!
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