Blue damselfly
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New chokecherry leaves
Monarch on milkweed
Dew on aged dandelion
Summer Solstice
Columbine at night
River Jewelwing at the creek
This is a damsel fly, as opposed to a dragon fly. A damsel fly keeps its wings more together above its body; a dragonfly keeps its wings flat out or below its body.
I think River Jewelwing is one of the most beautiful names I have learned.
The white dots on the wings of the damsel fly perched on the blade of grass below show that it is female.
Hawk feather
The shaft of the feather, or the quill, is called the calamus at the end where it is attached under the skin, and the rachis where it extends above the skin to the tip of the feather. The sides of the feather are called vanes, and are made up of fibres called barbs, coming off the rachis at an angle. On the barbs are smaller fibres called barblets, with hooklets that hold them together like a zipper.
Fly on Daisy
