A Blue-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly (Sympetrum ambiguum) was spotted near a vernal pool at remote location in Huntley Meadows Park, Fairfax County, Virginia USA. This individual is a male, as indicated by his terminal appendages.
When I post-processed the RAW images of the male dragonfly I noticed he has an eye injury, highlighted in the following annotated image.
22 OCT 2017 | HMP | Blue-faced Meadowhawk (male, with eye injury)
(See a full-size version of the original photo, without annotation.)
The eye injury can be seen in two more photos of the same male.
22 OCT 2017 | HMP | Blue-faced Meadowhawk (male, with eye injury)
22 OCT 2017 | HMP | Blue-faced Meadowhawk (male, with eye injury)
Related Resource: Eye injury, a blog post by Walter Sanford, featuring photos of a female andromorph Blue-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly spotted on 18 September 2013 along the boardwalk of the central wetland area at Huntley Meadows Park.
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Tags: Blue-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly, Family Libellulidae (Skimmers), Huntley Meadows Park, male, Sympetrum ambiguum, terminal appendages, vernal pool
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February 4, 2018 at 4:02 am |
[…] the same day that I saw a male Blue-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly (Sympetrum ambiguum) with an eye injury, one or more other males were photographed at the same location in Huntley Meadows Park, Fairfax […]