Western Meadowhawk

I thought this post was going to have another boring generic title. Something like "Dragonfly". But my very first search to identify this dragonfly led me to a site called Wild Utah, specifically the Dragonfly and Damselfly section of that site. I did the brute force approach and clicked on each link on that page so that I could compare the pictures on that site (which are fantastic!) to the pictures that I took. I eventually got to the links for Western Meadowhawk, and in particular the link for a female Western Meadowhawk. This matched my photos very nicely, so I decided my identification search was complete. My two photos were taken on the Buffalo Point Trail on Antelope Island.

Western Meadowhawk

Western Meadowhawk

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