Eight-spotted Skimmers – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Female Eight-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly

By Mia McPherson|July 20th, 2022|Categories: Davis County, Eight-spotted Skimmers, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Summit County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, canyon, cattails, dragonflies, dragonfly, Eight-spotted Skimmer, Eight-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly, female, Glover Pond, Libellula forensis, male, marsh, mountains, odonata, perched, pond, resting, riparian habitat, skimmer, skimmers, summer, wetlands|

Earlier this week my last subject of the morning was a female Eight-spotted Skimmer dragonfly that landed in front of me next to a creek in the mountains.

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World Wetlands Day 2021

By Mia McPherson|February 2nd, 2021|Categories: American Barn Owls, American Bitterns, American Coots, Bald Eagles, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Black-crowned Night Herons, Blue-winged Teals, Brewer's Blackbirds, Centennial Valley, Checkered White Butterflies, Cinnamon Teals, Common Mergansers, Conservation, Eight-spotted Skimmers, Environment, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Greater Scaups, Green-winged Teals, Halloween Pennants, Hooded Mergansers, Least Sandpipers, Lesser Scaups, Long-tailed Weasels, Marsh Wrens, Montana, Moose, Muskrats, Northern Harriers, Northern Pintails, Northern Shovelers, Pectoral Sandpipers, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Red-breasted Mergansers, Red-winged Blackbirds, Reddish Egrets, Redheads, Ruddy Ducks, Rusty Blackbirds, Sandhill Cranes, Scarlet Skimmers, Snowy Egrets, Spotted Sandpipers, Tricolored Herons, Trumpeter Swans, Tundra Swans, Utah, Variegated Meadowhawk, White-faced Ibises, Wildflowers, Wilson's Phalaropes, Yellow-crowned Night Herons, Yellow-headed Blackbirds|Tags: birds, critical, insects, plants, protection, water, wetlands, wildlife, World Wetlands Day|

February 2nd is World Wetlands Day to raise global awareness about the critical role of wetlands for people, wildlife and our planet.

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Twelve-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly – Other Things With Wings

By Mia McPherson|July 17th, 2020|Categories: Box Elder County, Davis County, Eight-spotted Skimmers, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Twelve-spotted Skimmer Dragonflies, Utah|Tags: adult, desert, dragonflies, dragonfly, Eight-spotted Skimmer, Eight-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly, Great Basin, Libellula forensis, Libellula pulchella, odonata, perched, resting, seep, skimmer, skimmers, Twelve-Spotted Skimmer, Twelve-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly|

Five days ago I photographed a lifer dragonfly when I found a male Twelve-spotted Skimmer that was hanging around a spring-fed seep next to a gravel road in Box Elder County.

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Head On Eight-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly – Other Things With Wings

By Mia McPherson|July 15th, 2018|Categories: Davis County, Eight-spotted Skimmers, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: dragonflies, dragonfly, Eight-spotted Skimmer, head on, Libellula forensis, odonata, skimmer, skimmers, summer, wetlands|

Two days ago at Glover Pond there were several Eight-spotted Skimmer dragonflies that I aimed my lens at and of those I liked this head on shot the most.

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Eight-spotted Skimmer & Variegated Meadowhawk

By Mia McPherson|July 6th, 2017|Categories: Box Elder County, Dragonflies, Eight-spotted Skimmers, Utah, Variegated Meadowhawk|Tags: adult, desert, dragonflies, dragonfly, Eight-spotted Skimmer, female, freshwater seep, freshwater spring, insects, Libellula forensis, odonata, rusty, seep, summer, Sympetrum corruptum, Variegated Meadowhawk, wire|

I enjoyed photographing the Eight-spotted Skimmer and Variegated Meadowhawk while also taking photos of Red-tailed Hawk juvenile.

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Male Eight-spotted Skimmers at Farmington Bay

By Mia McPherson|August 13th, 2016|Categories: Davis County, Eight-spotted Skimmers, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, dragonflies, dragonfly, Eight-spotted Skimmer, Libellula forensis, male, marsh, odonata, pond, skimmer, skimmers, summer, wetlands|

A few days ago I discovered several male Eight-spotted Skimmers close to the edge of Glover Pond at Farmington Bay and was delighted to photograph these beautifully patterned Odonata.

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