Calico Pennant Dragonfly: Kennebunk Plains Conservancy, Kennebunk, Maine, USA, June 2026 — When I last went out to the Kennebunk Plains, it was looking very dry. Yesterday, it looked much healthier. And there were dragonflies by the pond. This is one of my favorite dragons—though I persist in thinking it is misnamed. It is the Calico Pennant. Calico, I assume, in reference to the printed cotton cloth, and pennant from its habit of landing on tall stalky things and swinging in the wind like a flag. Clearly, though, they missed an opportunity with the red hearts and the general festive redness. Valentine’s Pennant would be so easy. Whatever, I am always delighted to find them, quite early in the dragon season. Sony a6700. Signs 16-300 Contemporary at about 600mm equivalent field of view crop. Program with insect modifications. Processed in Photomator.