The birding has been slow around here so far this fall.  At least in the park out back.  Probably due to the consistent southerly winds and mild temperatures accompanying them.  So in the slow periods I take to photographing dragonflies.  Along with the Meadowhawks that are so prevalent in the fall I try to find some Darners.  I was able to locate both sexes of Lance Tipped Darners last night and below is a picture of a female Lance Tipped.  Beautiful green coloring compared to the male's blue.

Also, there was a hatch last week of Common Green Darners in the park out back.  They are often a food source for migrating kestrels and merlins.  The CGDs that hatch at this time of year also will migrate south.  They are one of a handful of dragonflies that do migrate.

These White Faced Meadowhawks are extremely common in the late summer/early fall.  And they were dinner last night for the Eastern Phoebes that were chasing them around.  At one point a Lance tipped Darner chased the Phoebe away; showing their fearless nature.

As these dragonflies are small, there is some zoom on the camera required to get a proper shot on the digiscoping system.  With the superior glass of the Swarovski ATX95 it did not seem to be a problem at all.