{"id":3910,"date":"2013-07-01T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2013-07-01T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T11:36:07","slug":"heres-looking-at-you-swamp-spreadwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s looking at you: Swamp Spreadwing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/weiw.lightshedder.com\/MaineHome\/ME-Odos\/i-6Bj4cvk\/0\/XL\/IMG_5068-XL.jpg?resize=904%2C678\" width=\"904\" height=\"678\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After days of rain, on Saturday afternoon we had a burst of sunshine&#8230;and promising enough skies so I got the scooter out and did a round of all the local dragonfly and damselfly ponds. It was bug city! And, from the amount of mating activity I saw, the odonata tribe was making up for lost time. I took lots of pics, but I can&#8217;t resist posting this one&#8230;it just makes me smile. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It is a Swamp Spreadwing&#8230;one of the larger damselflies. They were out in numbers at one of the ponds that feed Back Creek along Route 9 in Kennebunk.<\/p>\n<p>Canon SX50HS. My usual modifications to Program. 1800mm equivalent (1200 optical plus 1.5x digital tel-extender). f6.5 @ 1\/400th @ ISO 800. 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