Literally.
Last week I saw the dragonflies swarming again. I think it was 10 years ago when I first noticed this phenomenon. One afternoon my yard was full of dragonflies, more than I'd ever seen before; it was almost plague-like *vewwy vewwy cweepy* and I like dragonflies. So I went outside to get a closer look, and hundreds of them were buzzing all over the place! Then I saw why: clouds of newly hatched no-see-ums were floating up out of the lawn. (Ick! It still gives me goosebumps.) Go get 'em, dragonflies!!! Eat your fill!!! Then I looked up. Maybe three dozen birds, mostly barn swallows I think, were circling and diving for dragonflies!
Since then, I've seen it a few times during August, in various fields around here. Really cool!
I love stuff in nature. I bet it would be cool to see that. To me Dragonfly's always looked like the old helicopters used in Korea (think MASH on tv.)
ReplyDeleteThe one's used in MASH, not the big ones where the pilots sat up high. They looked like grasshoppers to me.
ReplyDeleteCoddey- those were Bell 47g's, if I'm not mistaken, and yes, they did look mightily like dragonflies.
ReplyDeleteI love dragonflies! It seems we have less every year. However, we did not have any grasshoppers. Thank you, baby Jesus. The year of the grasshopper is past until the next cycle.
ReplyDeleteWere their raptors circling above the swallows?
ReplyDeleteI did look to the treetops for hawks or eagle, but no. Looks like the swallows won that round.
ReplyDeleteCircle of life? I hate nature.
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