July 8, 2025 — Dane County
UW Arboretum - Teal Pond
Blue-eyed Darner (
Rhionaeschna multicolor)
Photographed
UW Arboretum Teal Pond. Opportunistic sighting during bird walk. Cruising back and forth over pond/cattails. Manged to get one photo that wasn't a complete blur - lots of glare. I am attaching 2 images: one is the original, the other has has some post-processing corrections (brightness and contrast) to reduce haziness. ID by Edgar Spalding who noted that the whitish face in the photo is probably the result of overexposure of the pale blue due to the glare.